The event attracted all sorts if 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."l'll never be alive,"said Teddy Baxter,aged 6."Sure you Willi,"answered his brother Henny ,who was 19."l might not be,but you'll be around for sure." Gene McDaniel,who was 20 at the time,thought:"ln 2007,l'll be 70-l'll never make it.