Travels

Destination: Henry Ford Museum

Deep-Fried Plymouth! Tulsa, Ok, June 15, 2007

So Tulsa’s legendary buried car emerges extra crispy and golden brown like it’s been battered and deep-fried like a piece of chicken. It’s shocking. People gasp. Some cry. How could this happen? How could the vault it was buried in have leaked? Why didn’t they do a better job? So many questions…so few answers. The whole thing was really just a big publicity stunt that morphed into a bizarre science experiment. Oh well, a petrified Plymouth makes for a much more interesting story than a pristine one.

The saga of the soggy car continues. On Friday, June 21, 2007 Mr. R.E. Humbertson, was announced as the winner. He’s the one who in 1957, guessed closest to what Tulsa’s population is in 2007. If he is still among us in the land of the living he’s 85 years young. He, or his heirs, have five years to claim the prized Plymouth before ownership goes to the Tulsa Historical Society. Earth to Mr. Humbertson…are you out there?

For a full recap of my Route 66 road trip go to my blog DESTINATION TIME CAPSULE!

NPR’s Day to Day covered the DESTINATION TIME CAPSULE! trip. Listen to the series here.

Here’s to the crispy car and it’s lucky winner!