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Chuck
09-09-2009, 04:53 PM
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/2/AmericanFlag.jpg "No one had ever seen that before" (http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2009/09/09/met_547528.shtml)

http://www.youtube.com/v/7D6AXWVOWW4&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1Preston Sparks - AUGUSTA (http://chronicle.augusta.com) - Sept 9, 2009

Was that a Grateful Dead album in the 8-track? --Ed.

Lonnie Holloway apparently didn't subscribe to the notion that you can't take it with you.

On Tuesday, the 90-year-old Saluda, S.C., man was buried in his favorite car -- a classic green 1972 Pontiac Catalina.

"It was unusual," his caretaker, Rosa Anderson, said in a telephone interview after the funeral, but "it was what he wanted."... http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2009/09/09/met_547528.shtml

Chuck
09-09-2009, 04:58 PM
Does this make you want to find stories of the most unusual funerals? Imagine the mortitian. (sp)

worthywads
09-09-2009, 05:18 PM
This one seems more appropriate.

http://www.munsterkoach.com/images/DragStrip4.jpg

echoman
09-09-2009, 09:05 PM
The car looks in good shape, its kind of a waste, but if thats what he wanted than well done. It would be alot cheaper too haha!

Tomjones76
09-10-2009, 09:03 AM
Is it just me, or are 90% of your local A-hole drivers in Pontiacs, pickups or BMWs?
It's turned into a running joke with the wife....



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