So what car is this from? (hubcap ID)

[dave5339]

My wife and I were out digging an older site this afternoon.

We got a solid hit from the Tesoro Cibola even with full discrimination, (usually something good).

We dug down a ways and the target was still in the hole.

Eventually we uncovered this about 9" down.

It was laying nice and flat in the hole. Unfortunately there wasn't anything else under it.

Anyone got an idea as to what car this came off of?

Semper Fi

 

[TxTim]

Looks like a cadillac logo to me.

 

[DigginThePast]

I think Mercury.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Looks like a cadillac logo to me.

Looks like it but I cant find it. http://www.hubcapsandcentercaps.com/cadillac.html

 

[DigginThePast]

Closest I was able to come up with so far, 1973-1974 Mercury Marquis. Note the symbol in the center. Sorry for the small pic, I'll see what else I can turn up.

 

[Breezie]

It's hard to see from the pic, but it looks like a '60-61 Mercury to me. Breezie

 

[DigginThePast]

1974 Mercury Montego Sport.

Sourced from ebay but the guy has it right.

 

[sniffer]

you beat me to it Diggin, my mom had one when I was a kid

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

1974 Mercury Montego Sport.

Sourced from ebay but the guy has it right.

good ID.

 

[dave5339]

Digginthepast nailed it.

Now if someone can come up with a reasonable explanation on what it is doing buried 9" down on a high river bluff above a tributary to the Trinity I can sleep again!

Semper Fi

 

[sniffer]

is the car down at the bottom ? LOL

 

[DigginThePast]

is the car down at the bottom ? LOL

Yup, hubcap came off when the car was pushed into the river with a trunk load of bodies.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

We find cars in the canal here all the time. One car was even found down the street with bones in it after a drought. He was missing for 20 years. Drove in the canal at night.

Heres another story. http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/broward/sfl-jeff-klee-found-in-canal-032908,0,211685.story?page=1

It happens more often than you would think. http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/broward/sfl-jeff-klee-found-in-canal-032908,0,211685.story?page=2

DRIVERS FOUND MOST RECENTLY IN WATERWAYS

Dec. 4, 2007: Sheriff's divers from Broward and Palm Beach counties, searching for stolen and abandoned vehicles, recovered a silver Mercedes-Benz coupe from the bottom of the Hillsboro Canal, near the Broward-Palm Beach county line. Inside the car were the remains of Barry Fish, who was 42 and lived west of Boca Raton when he vanished Nov. 11, 1992.

Feb. 8, 2007: A fisherman found an SUV along Florida's Turnpike in southwest Miami-Dade County. The driver, Jose Miguel Pasquariello, 26, of west Miami-Dade, vanished in July 2006.

March 9, 2006: A Water Management District maintenance crew found a 55-foot semitrailer in a canal along U.S. 27 just south of South Bay. The driver, Kenneth Conceicao, 35, of New Jersey, disappeared Jan. 20, 2006.

SOURCE: SUN-SENTINEL ARCHIVES

OTHERS FOUND IN SOUTH FLORIDA CANALS

Jan. 13, 2006: A pedestrian saw a pickup in the Boynton Canal off Hagen Ranch Road, west of Boynton Beach. Inside the truck were the bodies of Randy Kolessa, 26, and his girlfriend, Bethannie Bennett, 21.

July 15, 2003: Bridge maintenance divers found a car submerged in a canal in the 3700 block of Northwest 52nd Avenue in Lauderdale Lakes. Inside the car, investigators found Seres Morency, 38, of Pompano Beach. He had been missing since Dec. 15, 2002.

April 9, 2001: Divers working for the South Florida Water Management District found a Mercedes-Benz at the bottom of the C-9 canal that runs along Southwest 148th Avenue in Miramar. The body of John Tammaro, 75, of Pembroke Pines, was inside. The well-known horse trainer was last seen Feb. 25, 2001.

Feb. 22, 2001: Miami-Dade police, on a routine operation to remove cars from an Everglades canal, found the remains of Robert Steward Hall, 50, in a mud-filled car at the bottom of the canal. Hall, who lived on a five-acre estate in the Everglades, disappeared in October 1979.

Feb. 22, 1997: The remains of five teens who disappeared in 1979 from Miami-Dade and Broward counties were found when investigators pulled a van from the Boca Rio canal, west of Boca Raton.

SOURCE: SUN-SENTINEL ARCHIVES