From Trussville Tribune staff reports
TRUSSVILLE –Trussville Tribune reader LaTrelle Grayson forwarded some very interesting photos of several vehicles that were discovered by the construction crew clearing land for the new Homestead Village retail center on U.S. Highway 11. While making way for the new shopping center, workers discovered cars from previous decades buried near the rear of the property.
“I saw some of the cars as they were clearing and before the houses came down,” Grayson said. “I took some photos on January 9 of two of the cars but it was from about 75 yards away. I don’t really know who owned the cars because I saw only two cars at the time. Tony Edwards, who is the superintendent for Brad Cole Construction, said that there were six cars in total, but the family came and got one of them. Today I saw three being hauled away by a towing company.”
It’s easy to let your imagination wander while looks at the relics from yesteryear.
“It was interesting to me to think about who owned the cars and why they were abandoned,” Grayson said. “I speculate that one of the men who lived there worked on his own cars and when he couldn’t fix them he took them to the woods. And then… he died.”
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All photos sumitted by LaTrelle Gayson
3 Comments
John Patterson
Neat. My Granddad had a 50 Buick that looked a lot like that one.
Kathy Phelps
I remember that green Buick.
Ronnie Aldrich
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