Winners not easy to figure out in 50-year-old contest

Burying a car for a contest? What'd they do, wrap it in plastic? I wonder if the car is worth some money and is a classic.

Winners not easy to figure out in 50-year-old contest

TULSA, Okla. - Locating and then digging up a 50-year-old Plymouth buried in a time capsule here may prove to be the easiest part of completing a contest started in 1957.

The catch is figuring out who will win the Plymouth Belvedere.

To mark the 50th anniversary of Oklahoma's statehood, organizers ran a contest in conjunction with the car's burial on June 15, 1957.

The rules were seemingly simple: The person who came closest to guessing Tulsa's population in 2007 wins the car and a savings account started with $100 in 1957. If that person was dead, the car and the savings account would go to his or her heirs.

But there are no additional instructions on what to do if the winner or winner's heirs can't be found, or if there are 10 winners and 100 heirs claiming the prize.

Members of a committee charged with unearthing the car buried by the Tulsa County Courthouse were meeting this week to sort it all out.