I recently received this letter which I will post in its entirety. I beleive it speaks for itself:
Dear mr. bruce-
A little known car fact is that the polio epidemic of the 1950’s brought about tons of high grade scrap iron from eventually unused iron lungs. Most of these iron lungs were then moved on to places like Katz’s Iron Salvage in Marion IA. Since they were used to stem the lives of many but they also fought a losing battle for many who were not so lucky.
To honor those young lives/deaths it was decided that the auto industry would use the scrapped metal from the lungs to create new rolling tributes for those thousands who lost their battles. They were melted and shaped into steal for the funeral hearse niche of the various luxury funeral providers. The enclosed snapshot shows one such vehicle. This vehicle is in Dyresville IA and is now unused. It was the emergency vehicle for the “If you build it they will come” baseball stadium (recently posting it’s final game) and could be purchased reasonably…an ideal Billymobile.
In friendship,
jj
ps – do I actually have this much free time in my life?
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