Car Exhumed after 50 Years

A 1957 Plymouth Belvedere buried a half-century ago to celebrate Oklahoma's 50 years of statehood has just been unearthed.



The gold and white two-door hardtop spent the last half-century covered in three layers of protective material and encased in a 12-by-20-foot concrete vault, supposedly tough enough to withstand a nuclear attack.
Buried with the car were 10 gallons of gasoline _ in case internal combustion engines became obsolete by 2007 _ a case of beer, and the contents of a typical woman's handbag placed in the glove compartment: 14 bobby pins, a bottle of tranquilizers, a lipstick, a pack of gum, tissues, a pack of cigarettes, matches and $2.43.