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Re: [oletrucks] truck burial

To: "G. Simmons" <gls@4link.net>
Subject: Re: [oletrucks] truck burial
From: Bruce Damen <little-castle-contracting@cadvision.com>
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 10:25:19 -0700
lol....sounds like the resto project of the future....on step further
thou.....freeze yourself in nitrogen and when they do come to excavate the truck
maybe theyll have the technology to also restore the old trucker thats there and
ask him why we drove this type of  truck,,,and theyd take ya on field trips in
ye ole truck and truckee.....lol..

who knows

Bruce
1949 chev 1/2 ton     and human size freezing chamber

"G. Simmons" wrote:

> >a truck has to be worth as much to
> >>me as it is to the guy someday who ends up with it... altho I'm thinking I
> >>will be buried in mine! :)
>
> >Hell of an expensive casket!! I would much rather have mine be handed down
> >to somebody in the family. After all I thought we were trying to save these
> >ole trucks from meeting their death!!!
>
> Yeah, but your relatives never have the same feeling for it.
>
> What you have to do is build a big stone casket, put a Tyvek house liner
> inside, put the truck in and fill the casket with sillica to keep any stray
> moisture away.
>
> The motor and tranny should be in separate canopic jars, embalmed in
> cosmolene.  Appropriate incantations from the Book of the Dead and the
> Chevy/GMC shop manual should be made by qualified clergy/mechanics (How
> 'bout it, PastorJon?) and the stone lid lowered and sealed, and the burial
> site obscured.
>
> This way, the truck will be preserved for a couple thousand years or so
> until the archaeologists dig it up.
>
> This will have the additional benefit of using up any remaining funds in
> your estate, which your surviving relatives might otherwise use in
> unwholesome ways.
>
> There is an old Judeo-Christian tradition that on the judgment day those of
> us not buried in the land of Israel will have to walk there underground
> before being resurrected.  I think it wouldn't be so bad if I could drive my
> oletruck instead of having to walk.
>
> Regards,
>
> Grant S.
>
> oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959

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