The event attracted all sorts of people to Denver Avenue that day in 1957. Some thought that the idea of burying a new car was dumb; others thought it was brilliant. Raffle tickets (for the car) were sold.The person to guess the approximate population of Tulsa in 2007 would win. I will never be alive, said Teddy Baxter, aged 6. Sure you will, answered his brother Henry, who was 19. I might not be, but you will be around for sure. Gene McDaniel, who was 20 at the time, thought: In 2007, I will be 70 I will never male it.