I meant burying a car for 50 years was dumb too. Did the water get into the car?
Ahhh..., I see... Well, I read an article in the paper that said the burying of the car was an attempt by the city of Tulsa to take some of the publicity away from Oklahoma City when it came around to the 100th Anniversary for statehood for Oklahoma. So, it was apparently partly a rivalry between Oklahoma City and Tulsa and partly publicity for Tulsa, too. Can’t tell you much more than that, though.
As far as water getting in the car, the public has not been informed yet. Only a few people know at this point in time. The unveiling is supposed to happen at 7PM (at the Tulsa Convention Center), although the car was removed from the vault at noon today. It was said that there was several feet of water in the vault, but they didn’t specify exactly how many feet. I got the idea (somehow...) that it was two or three feet. I don’t know what that would do to the car.
The news people (some of whom claim they’ve gotten some advanced sneak peeks to the car), say that the car is in pretty good shape, considering. Whatever that means, I don’t know.
You’ll be able to watch it live, on one of those links I posted up above, if you’re interested.