Isnt that where you just pick shit outta your ass and throw it at each other... Thats what they do at the zoo when they aint masturbating. Dave Ps: as far as the 32's go forget it I got em all 31 years ago. I took my 12 foot fishin boat and stuck my cherry picker in her and went out and snorkled down hooked a piece of clothes line to em and hauled em up. Took a while but they were worth gettin. I got em buried in the back yard so no one knows I got em.. I hate company ya know..
Its not that the story isn't possible. Its very possible a train car derailed with contents still inside. I'm sure there are others. We know cargo ships lose crates at sea. The way I heard they were experimental 32 Fords with special flathead V12 racing engines equipped with 100mpg Pogue carbuerators on their way to some super secret test facility Henry Ford had developed. The cars were sealed in air tight steel containers welded shut. The train mysteriously derailed but only that one train car found its way into the lake. The government knows all about the cars and why they are in that lake and anyone who attempt to tamper with them will be dealt with swiftly and quietly. At least that's the story an old fellow who worked at a gas station told me. Must be true. He's old and has worked on cars a lot. ;-)
When I was a kid, I saw a Harley Davidson borded up under a work bench in a garage in South Omaha.The old man called it a murder cycle and said no one would ride it again.I still live in the same neighborhood and wonder if it's still there.
Thats an old wives tail about crystal lake...and actually the story goes that it is full of Model T's, not 32's. A train did derail there in the mid-20's, but that lake is over 100 feet deep near the tracks. That storys been around since I was a kid.
I have very few facts to the following story, but it is true and there was even a childrens novel based on it (novel was called The Machine Gunners) some time in the mid-60's some kids in Denmark (?) were playing on some farmland, and they came across a large pond/slew that had recently been drained to make the field larger. in the middle of the mud sat an HE111, skeleton crew and all, intact and missing a wing. They didnt tell anyone, cause instead of reporting it they pulled the gun out one of the gunners positions and hid it in their tree-fort. they went down to the library and researched all they could on it, and over a week they cleaned it up and managed to find some belted ammo. They were literally about to pull the trigger (lord knows at what) when their grandfather (and the police) caught them. I guess the plane got restored, put in a museum. I hope the remains of the crew got sent home.
I am really getting sick and tired of that damn Bigfoot riding on that unicorn at a high rate of speed in my neighborhood. Someone's gonna get hurt.
just something to think about with these stories...did any car company use box cars to ship cars in the 30's? im pretty sure they used flatbeds and not box cars. Any railroad guys out there that can confirm that?
Around here its common knowledge that Lake Lanier is full of cars, buildings, houses etc.. Stuff left behind when they flooded it . One marina has the docks anchored by all manner of big block Chevy motors .
Here's a true one. I live on the border with Canada, there is a large river between the two counties here, right at the "end" of Lake Huron. During prohibition "rumrunners' used to bring booze across from Canada to the U.S. here. Most of it went to Chicago for the mob there, but some was for local comsumtion too. The river is a half mile wide at a narrow area here and there were, and still are, cables stretched across the river. the cables were hauled up at night and booze was brought across on the cables. Back then the river would freeze over in winter, it doesn't now for some reason, probably too many chemicals in it now. Some enterprising locals would drive old, at the time, cars across and load them with booze and drive back. All at night of course, even thought the local cops had to be in on it. Some of the cars went through the ice and sank. Until recently the cars were more or less intact. My brother is a diver and has seen the remains, he even brought up a brass dust cap with the Ford logo on it. Due to ice, freighters, strong currents and much time the cars are now gone for the most part. But there's still many ship and boat wrecks in the local waters, there's a steam crane and barge that is ver complete and accessible right behind the City/Police station.
The story I heard about old cars and trains is a guy bought an old boxcar that had been in storage in Pennsylvania for so long they had to cut down the jungle to move it. Right next to a major car shop, but they forgot to ever scrap the car or do anything with it. So he buys it from the railroad, gets it cleared off, opens it up and there's two brand new Packards in there. Had been in there since the 30's or early 40's. Suppoedly a true story. But it seems like I've heard of a similar story, only with Jeeps in the boxcar, too. So who knows. Shipping cars by rail in 1932, you're talking a 40-foot boxcar, so two or three cars max. It was the late 30s before they started to mess with racks inside boxcars and longer/taller cars to carry more automobiles. (the "Auto Rack" is an invention of the mid-60's). Plus, there'd be room for them to move in there, if the car fell in the lake they're probably smashed up. Still, I'd take a gamble that one of them is a 3-window, and have a look for the thing. If they exist, they can't be much worse than if they were kept buried on purpose in a time capsule.
Did I ever mention the almost new 66 Corvette I bought off the old woman, whose son was killed in Nam, and I paid $100, and somebody died in it and they couldn't get the smell out, and........ oh never mind.-MIKE
How about Henry Fords private pullman car? Supposedly found in Talequah(sp) OK. Now in a museum in MI. Talequah WAS home to a killer yard in the 80's. Newest car was a 60 and went back to the 20's. Bottom half was surrounded by a 10' wall of cowls, quarters,doors grille shells etc. Any Okies know what happened to old man Spears place?How bout the story on Henry's pullman car?
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I 've been on the railroad 39 years now and yrs ago autos were shipped in boxcars. the were chained up towards the roof. but the old story of a lost freight car full of 55 chevys ect is pure bullshit
I saw the show on discovery about the locomotives, there very old "single" wheel engines, the wood cabs are gone, there both sitting right next to each other.They thing they might have just rolled right off of a barge that was being towed.There right off of Long beach, NJ( home of Ron Jon surf shop). It was pretty interesting that they couldn't find any records of train engines being lost, but they think they might have been engines being delivered after the civil war to NY. JimV
In New Hampshire, in Lake Winnepasauki, there is a complete train at the bottom. It's a great dive sight. They used to run the train over the ice in the winter.. I guess they tried to stretch the winter season one ride too far.
"One marina has the docks anchored by all manner of big block Chevy motors " . Good place for them. Anyway, if this story pans out wouldn't it be cool? Really. Just to peer into the old boxcar as the doors fall away and see the familiar grille and headlights of a beloved '32....MANY '32's. Makes me grin.....
kinda OT but not worth a new thread. 8 or more years ago there was a big fire in East San Diego, Alpine area. My uncles friend lived out there, he had bought his panhead chopper. The fire was fast and an emergency evacuation left little time to get stuff. Typically a structure without bushes or trees next to the walls doesn't burn, so he thought his stuff had a chance against the fire. A week or so after my uncle and his friend went to see what was left. The house and garage had burnt down. The Harley was reduced to a charred frame and aluminum slag. As they surveyed the property, my uncle cleared the ash and rubble floating in the pool. Underneath they resurrected a perfect set of lawn chairs/table. They figured the fire-wind or firefighters had thrown them in there. My Uncle asked why didn't you roll the Harley in the pool? His friend said something he couldn't understand. the end TP
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