The Mercedes Benz 240 Diesel - Linden Park Cemetery, Linden, New Jersey
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an exact replica of Mercedes Benz 240 Diesel located in Linden Park Cemetery, Linden, Union County, New Jersey, USA
Waymark Code: WMN09Z
Location: New Jersey, United States
Date Posted: 12/01/2014
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This exact replica of Mercedes Benz 240 Diesel can be found in Linden Park Cemetery, Linden, New Jersey.
Located in the peaceful setting of the Linden Park Cemetery in Union County, stands a monument to one young man’s love of an automobile.
According to the legend, the young man had always dreamt of owning a Mercedes as a boy, but was killed in a tragic auto accident at age 16, just before receiving his driver’s license. Others say that his older brother, a well to do Chinese-America businessman promised his younger brother a Mercedes upon yearning his driver’s license. This was never to be though, as the young man is said to have taken ill and died before reaching the legal driving age.
The car, which is an exact scale model of the German four-door sedan, was chiseled from a single block of stone. There it sits, fully loaded and bearing all of the appropriate manufacturer’s insignias, eternally at the ready to whisk the dear departed away to the hereafter.
The monument is a wonder of the modern stonecutter’s craft. The car’s grill, windshield wipers, treads in the tires, textured taillights and even the exhaust pipe and muffler are rendered in painstaking detail. The only thing missing are the two side-view mirrors, which most likely would have protruded too much and been broken off.
According to an expert, "It was all done by sight and hand chisels. It probably took a year-and-a-half to cut that stone.”
Source: Internet
Title: The Mercedes Benz 240 Diesel
Artist: employes of the Rock of Ages in Graniteville, VT, USA
Placement Date: 1970's
Website: [Web Link]
Type of Object: a car
Location: cemetery
Material: bloc of granit
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