Skin diving in Lake Michigan?

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This boat sank in Lake Michigan exposing these cars.

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[Nicolina]

Shame about teh cars! Here's a restoration project for you, Skip!

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Right after the ship sank the ship's owners tried to bring up a car...well they managed to bring up a small part of what was once a whole car. They just weren't built worth a darn back in the day.

Now a days the sheet steel is rolled so thin and the glass thickness reduced by another 1/2 a millimeter that all cars are built exactly alike from BMW's down to KIA's. There all junk in my honest opinion. Especially Lexis. Built to last about 12 years. Same as a dog. And it takes that long to pay for them too.

And starting in 2013 they all have a chip in them that records miles driven for future tax purposes. [What happened to 'No taxation without representation'?]. Stamped the same way into the same hydro formed shapes, and tack welded together by the same robots in the same assembly process. And they all come out of the wind tunnel looking all alike. Trying to cheat the wind. Have you seen the new Jaguar? Ugly, sameness, shape as everybody else. I'm going to build my next car again. And it's going to be embellished with fins, wind grabbing, Kimono catching big fins! And the 'conscience of Ford Motor Company', X-Formula One winner, three time World Champion, Jackie Stewart is going to highly disapprove of it.

Some 2,500 units are built every hour of every day, 24-7, 365 days a year world wide. Less then .01% are hybrids and they ALL are trying to meet the mandatory C.A.F.E. mpg requirements. You can thank the government for ugly cars. Any body want a Smart Car built by Mercedes Benz?

Heck my 1930 roadster body has it's 19 gauge sheet steel peened around a piece of screwed together hickory framing and then rolled under and tacked to the bottom side of the hickory with tacks having extra large diameter heads.

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In a [ 1917 ?] Ford Model 'T', Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, Tomas Edison and a driver all took a camping trip from Dearborn Ave in Detroit to Chicago, to Milwaukee until the road ran out...then onward to Fayette, Michigan where Henry established a iron smelting operation and incidentally invented charcoal brackets. On the way back his driver was driving too slowly over the Indiana Dunes and so Henry took the wheel and soon after rolled the Ford Model 'T' end for end. Nobody hurt enough to talk about, they and the car made it back to Detroit. How cool is that?

I always Luv'ed those Big Ford/Mercury Marquis wagons. Every two years dad would by a new wagon and every other year a new Lincoln for mom. Always from 'Leo' from Gerald Lincoln-Mercury in Skokie, Illinois. Even when they retired down to Boca Raton, Florida.

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