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My Amazing Tulsa Belvedere Dream

I dreamed that I was driving along Old Route 66 in Tulsa when I saw a familiar sight cruising past me in the other direction. It was a 1957 Plymouth Belvedere, completely restored to its original condition! I remembered that they had recently unearthed a similar car and awarded it to whoever made the closest guess to Tulsa’s population in 50 years when the car was buried. I asked several people, and they told me it was the same 1957 Plymouth Belvedere that had been buried a half-decade ago. As it turned out, the car had undergone a massive restoration project, getting it back to its original 1957 condition. The person who had brought the car in was the nephew of the winner, R.E. Humbertson, who died in 1979. I tried to find him, but the people said he went the other way out of town. So I decided to follow the Belvedere and track down the person who had brought it in. A few moments later, I caught up to the Belvedere and motioned him to pull over by flashing my headlights. When he finally did, I asked him if he was related to the winner, and he surely was! He told me a story about the car’s burial and the contest that would take place 50 years into the future, and he revealed that he would claim the car in case his uncle couldn’t. I thanked the man for taking some time to share his amazing story with me, and then I drove on back to Tulsa, satisfied that I had at long last found the owner of the restored Belvedere!

2007-06-24 19:30:48 GMT
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