'29 cars in sunk car ferry @ bottom of lake Michigan

found these pictures on google dont think the cars will be worth much

 

HMMMM. So, they faired(sp) better than the car buried in the tomb that leaked a short while back? Ya know, the one that Boyd dug up

 

found some more cars

 

There are quite a few cars that have had similar fate.

Can't remember their name but I seem to remember a bunch of cars with copper based engines getting the grand dunk.

Its unfortunate to loose history this way but the even more sad and tragic loss of our history in things from automotive to architecture... newer is better. Things getting cut up and blown up intentionally. And its even more unfortunate how many people in recent years have done it fully knowing what they were doing just because the price of metal is good or the land could better be used for a strip mall.

Drag strips. Old town. Old cars. We're rapidly destroying american history.

 

They might not have been too bad off if it were not for the recent Zebra Muscle infestation. Over the last 20 years the entire great lakes system has been overrun with them and they cover everything like coral or barnicles do in the ocean.

 

Boyd didn't have squat to do with the "digging up" of the Belvedere in Tulsa. He and his "expert crew" showed up to see if they could get the car running and for Boyd's famous self-aggrandizing, that is all. He basically invited himself to the operation, which the Tulsa C of C said "ok"...

BTW, low oxygen content in deep fresh water retards corrosion a great deal. Had this been a salt water wreck in the same depths, there wouldn't be much of the wreck left at all, except the largest and thickest parts of the train cars and the hull. It looks pretty damn good at that relatively shallow depth, sinking in 1926, versus the Titanic, which sank in much deeper colder salt water, in 1912.

 

Not automotive, but I seem to remember reading about a WW I German sub at the bottom of Lake Michigan. It supposedly was a war reparation from the Kaiser's Navy, in 1918. Not sure if I'm remembering right though, but I'm not thinking of the U-505 at The Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.

 

the more i tear it up, the more i find bits and pieces of a model T or something in front of my dock. so far a full cowl lamp, rear axel pinion and ring, headlamp glass and bolts. the sand drops 20' down a littel after the spot i found them.
And seaweed terrifys me.

 

Cool stories.

 

Those cars seemed to have faired much better than most cars that old from Michigan

 

Its interesting seeing in those last pictures how the cars "dismantled". Wouldn't it be cool to capture that on film? I mean the engine is out of its mounts and the valve cover gone along with the manifolds. Where's the body? I suppose its possible that something could have hit it once it all crashed to the bottom. Just interesting how these unseen hands slowly take things apart. Maybe some old sailor's ghost was a hot rodder too.

 

*scratches his major balls*....grabs his dive kit and out the door!

Cold water is O.K......find me some 70*, then well talk

GearHeadDiver

 

They were NASH's! You could give me Singer sewing machines and I would care more!@ Seriously. Neat story however.

 

Don't get me wrong I love stuff like this it's verry cool, but I don't care if that thing was full of '32's. Get real it's at the bottom of a f***ing lake. Work some OT and call Brookville.

 

You got a great alias for someone concerned about pollution FWIW, the commotion and disturbance of raising one of those cars to the surface would pollute the water more than if it's just left where it is.

 

I think the picture you're referring to isn't of the wreck, but rather just some old car engine, frame, and Nemo knows what else that was dumped in a lake somewhere. No way did the manifolds just come off after laying in the water......

 

When "Mossyrock" dam was built here in Washington state,It covered an entire town with what is now Riffe lake. The rumor mill says there was a nice old wrecking yard covered by the lake too. Probobly lots of old cars and stuff under water back south east. Lots of Farmers lost land and other property when evicted by the Tennesee valley authority when they built a bunch of flood control dams back in the late forties and early fifties.

 

I'm suprised that no one has mentioned Million Dollar Point yet.
After WW2, the US army pushed hundreds jeeps, Deuce trucks, tanks, air planes equipment and other materials off of ships. The reason being was that for much of this material, there was no longer a need and for the material that could have been used again, it was cheaper to make a new one in the US than to pay for the shipping costs to have it brought back here and sold on the civilian market.

http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/10/million_point.php
http://www.cdnn.info/news/travel/t080321.html

 

this one is in better shape than the one in my garage, haha