Neighbors in the Mirror Lakes Estates subdivision first spotted the car after a pipe to the dam burst and the water level dropped.
"We had a mud hole and then all of a sudden a car appeared. it was buried in the mud, barely visible," said Mahaffey.
Neighbors said this isn't the first car that was found in Mirror Lake. They said in June, when there was another malfunction of the pipe to the dam and the lake levels were low, they spotted a different car. A neighbor shared photos of that car. It's a black Trans Am.
http://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/stolen-car-found-in-cobb-county-lake-30-years-later#/
https://www.facebook.com/CobbCountyPoliceDepartment/posts/2440400159408661
https://jalopnik.com/homeowners-association-finds-stolen-mud-filled-1983-pon-1837283708
https://news.yahoo.com/1983-pontiac-firebird-found-lake-030305079.html
There was either a body in the trunk, or a skeleton with a mullet behind the wheel.
ReplyDeleteI just updated the story, this is the 2nd car pulled out of that lake this summer, a Trans Am was pulled out in June. Some car thief that loved to steal Pontiac fun cars had found that this was a really good lake to hide the stolen cars in.
DeleteI'm impressed that after 30 years underwater most of the paint is still attached. Tony
ReplyDeletethe paint was made differently back then, enamel instead of water based, and the clear cat was made differently
Delete...and meanwhile we had British Leyland putting a thin mist of paint on Mini bodies that were already starting to rust, then wondering why customers were turning to Volkswagen and Honda.
ReplyDeletethere were few reasons to buy anything but VW and Honda for quite a while... like, the 70s and 80s, and 90s, and 00s. I was just reading Parnelli Jones book "I Am Parnelli Jones" and he points out in one of the last chapters what happened to change American buying habits of American tires like Firestone, and why Firestone sold out to the Asians, and what caused Americans to buy European tires, and Asian tires.
DeleteI tell you, clearly, the American and European companies that invented everything in the automotive world simply handed the entire industry to Asia.
Who owns Jaguar? Bentley? Volvo? Saab? Rolls Royce? Mini? Etc etc... it's not the companies or countries where they started. Chrysler is owned by Fiat... No one saw that coming 60 years ago. GM and Ford going bankrupt? No one saw that either... but those pensions came due at the same time the robots outnumbered the human workers, and suddenly there were 5 UAW pensioners getting paid from the income of 1 human and 4 robots.
Industry is weird, they pay CEOs millions to sink corporations.
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. It seems that we always hark back to a supposedly happier time. By the way, I cheated and copied the quote; I wasn't going to try and work out how to add those French wiggly bits.
ReplyDeletethe more things change, the more they stay the same?
ReplyDeleteYep.
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