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Rusty 1957 Plymouth Unearthed in Okla.
Thousands of people had watched as the car was placed on a flatbed truck about noon CDT and driven to the Tulsa Convention Center for the evening event. Some had arrived downtown before 6 a.m. and endured torrential rain just to get a glimpse of the car.
By the time of the ceremony, people were standing on rooftops and looking out office buildings as news helicopters buzzed overhead.
  People gather around a buried 1957 Belvedere on the east side of the Tulsa County Courthouse as the car is lifted by a crane, Thursday, June 14, 2007. The car is scheduled to be officially lifted out of its 50-year, time capsule tomb Friday at noon. (AP Photo/The Tulsa World, Stephen Holman) (Stephen Holman - AP) 
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"Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you Miss Belvedere," King Davis said before the crane delicately placed the car onto the flatbed.
Only the car's trademark fins were exposed as it came out of the ground, and it was unclear if they were caked with rust or mud.
The suspense was what Pittsburgh car enthusiast Dave Stragand came for.
"It's our King Tut's tomb," Stragand said. "It's like a fairy tale."
Like Stragand, folks who gathered at the site _ many days earlier _ didn't seem too concerned with how the car would look.
"We don't care what condition it's in," said Denver retiree Bob Petri, a car nut who said he was "born with a wrench" in his hand. "It's just the whole idea somebody thought of it in 1957 and here we are living it."
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