[DeTomaso] [BULK] NPC: Brand new '57 Plymouth to be unearthed

[asajay at asajay.com]

Nice stories but I don't think this is it.  The one I remember was  
featured in the back of Autoweek in 1985 or 1984 sometime.  It wasn't  
being buried, it was being unearthed, as I recall the diggers were  
surprised by the find.  There was a photo and short description in the  
magazine.

Asa Jay

Quoting Garth Rodericks <garth_rodericks at yahoo.com>:

> 1. SANDRA ILENE WEST (1977).  Buried seated at the wheel of her Ferrari.
>   Sandra West, a wealthy 37-year-old Beverly Hills socialite, was   
> buried in her baby-blue 1964 Ferrari. The seat was placed at a   
> comfortable slant and West was wearing her favorite lace nightgown.   
> According to court instructions, West and her automobile were   
> interred in a large box and covered over with two truckloads of   
> cement to discourage theft.
>
>   2. MRS. DOROTHY STEVENS.  Buried in her Ferrari with the engine   
> running and headlights on.
>   (I don't know if this one has any truth to it, but supposedly was   
> mentioned on a History Channel special about caskets in November   
> 1985.)
>   Excerpt from a post on an automotive forum   
> (http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/t89250.html):
>   The first handful of earth dropped like a shadow on the sharply   
> inclined rear window of the 365 GTB-4 Daytona. I couldn’t believe my  
>  eyes. The car was perfectly clean and shiny and the dark spot   
> detracted from the beauty of that sight. Then a hail of clods fell,   
> spoiling forever the design of the body by Pininfarina. The two   
> servants shoveled hard and soon all of the splendid red paint was   
> buried in earth. Only a little space on the side window remained to   
> be covered, a space that still revealed the flashy interior lined in  
>  white leather personally chosen by the owner. Meanwhile the engine   
> continued to run, rumbling as it idled, its 12 cylinders moving up   
> and down for the last time. Incredible: although the car was by now   
> almost completely submerged in earth, the 12V continued to live, as   
> if it wanted to cry out for pity to the whole world, as if it wanted  
>  to get out of that trench in which it had been buried. But after a   
> while the engine’s air intakes were entirely
>  obstructed and silence reigned supreme.  And so the last desire of   
> Mrs. Dorothy Stevens was fulfilled – that of being buried in her   
> Ferrari Daytona with the engine still running. In her will, Mrs.   
> Stevens had written, “I leave my mansion in Miami to the charity   
> institute for orphans, the rest of my estate and an income of 20,000  
>  dollars a month to my son Erik. On condition that he fulfils my  
> last  wish: that of being buried in my Ferrari GTB-4 Daytona with  
> the  engine still running and the headlights on, so I can have the   
> illusion of running for the last time in my sports car and lighting   
> up the shadows I am going to meet. And maybe in the end, with this   
> GT I will really be able to run through the roads of heaven.
>
>
>
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