Wouldn't generate a blip! That truck and plenty like it not only hauled our
grandparents food, building materials, you name it, etc., but went on to
Cuba to do it all over again!
Wayne - '47 1 Ton Chev Panel -
http://www.stores.ebay.com/thepaneltruckmercantile
----- Original Message -----
From: "tim" <lloydt@Colorado.EDU>
To: "Ole Truckers" <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 4:11 PM
Subject: Re: [oletrucks] Floating truck
> To continue the saga, from today's Boulder local newspaper:
>
> THAT'S ONE TOUGH TRUCK
> Even the dullest vehicle can garner attention -- witness the 1951
> Chevrolet 3100 Series pickup a dozen Cuban refugees used to flee the
> Caribbean island.
> The noble vehicle -- which otherwise wouldn't generate a blip in motor
> vehicle history -- sank last week after the U.S. Coast Guard removed
> its passengers and then sprayed it with gunfire, causing it to explode
> off Key West, Fla.
> Ira Shapiro, vice president of the Florida chapter of the Antique
> Automobile Club of America, told the Miami Herald the vehicle should
> have been towed in.
> "Some collector would have paid money for it," Shapiro said. After
> all it isn't often one finds a seaworthy Chevy.
> A government plane spotted the pickup, outfitted with pontoons
> fashioned from 55-gallon drums, July 16 about 40 miles off the coast in
> a heavily traveled shipping lane. The refugees have been sent home.
>
> Tim Lloyd, lloydt@colorado.edu
> http://54peanut.blogspot.com
> 1954 Chevy 3100 Pickup "Peanut"
> 1954 Chevy 3100 Panel "Being paid for"
> oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
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