Another Sherman tank yarn, veracity unknown: At a time after the war when surplus Shermans were just s****, a New Jersey wrecking firm got the idea of using one as a cheap and fast way of obliterating the houses then being removed from Route 10 in Northern NJ...10 was fast making the transition from residential road to a neon highway. Whole rows of houses were being s****ed off the map and replaced with shopping centers. The scheme was inadequately examined...the Sherman roared into house number one and dropped right into the ba*****t. Damn near everything in NJ has a ba*****t, and rather few of the first floors were built to support 30-40 tons... Ways of removing the tank were checked, and all cost a good deal of money to recover a tank that was utterly useless for the job it had been chosen for...so, since the land was to become a parking lot, the sensible thing was to just fill it all in and try to forget an embarr***ing failure of planning. Now, maybe the tank is worth more than some of the rows of failed nail polishing joints and Chinese take-out places... Anyone have an leads/rumors/lies to add in to the story??
I never seemed to have a camera with me when I found ditch cars. Cell phone cameras weren't around yet. I found a 34 Chevy Tudor half buried. I also found a early 20s T touring by tripping over the windshield stanchion poking thru the dirt. I dug it out and have a rough but useable body that some day will be used as a roadster body convert. I unearthed a partially buried 56 F100. Not much is useable.
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