You looking to buy a cemetery?
-Curt
On Thursday, July 5, 2018, 10:09:23 AM EDT, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
<mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
Does the sculpture convey with the property when sold?
On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 9:09 AM, Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> Hahahahaha
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Jul 4, 2018, at 5:27 AM, M. Mitchell Marmel via Mercedes <
> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> >
> > (insert unkind joke about the granite stretch 123 being almost as fast as
> > the real thing here) ;-)
> >
> > -MMM-
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 11:31 PM, archer75--- via Mercedes <
> > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> The Mercedes Benz Tombstone
> >>
> >> A Stylish Ride to the Other Side
> >>
> >> 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. The
> >> final resting place of Raymond Tse is an impressive enough looking
> >> mausoleum adorned by marble pillars, urns and relief sculptures of two
> >> oriental lions set into the facade. But what really puts this tomb in a
> >> luxury class by itself is the full size granite replica of a Mercedes
> Benz
> >> 240 Diesel that is parked right out back. 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. It even has personalized license plates bearing
> the
> >> name Ray Tse.
> >>
> >> https://weirdnj.com/stories/the-mercedes-benz-tombstone/
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Legend has it that young Raymond 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 Ray’s older brother
> David,
> >> a well to do Chinese-America businessman promised his younger brother a
> >> Mercedes upon earning his driver’s license. This was never to be
> though, as
> >> Ray is said to have taken ill and died before reaching the legal driving
> >> age. Weird NJ spoke with Richard T. who was a tenant in one of the many
> NJ
> >> buildings owned by David Tse and was one of the mourners present at
> >> Raymond’s funeral.
> >>
> >> “David owned several luxury cars himself,” Richard told us, “and
> promised
> >> to buy Ray one for his seventeenth birthday. Ray lived in Hong Kong,
> but he
> >> visited David in America often. David was about twenty years older than
> >> Ray. When Ray died, his parents could not accept the loss and shipped
> the
> >> body over here for burial. They didn’t even attend the funeral. At the
> >> service we were all given play money and fake gold bars to throw into a
> can
> >> of fire so that Ray would have wealth in the afterlife. They also gave
> out
> >> real money, which would have been disrespectful to refuse. I was given
> $30
> >> which I threw in a drawer and did not touch for five years.”
> >>
> >> “Ray’s mausoleum and Mercedes take up forty cemetery plots and cost
> >> $500,000 back in the 70’s. David is said to still visit the grave ever
> day.
> >> ”
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> We asked Anthony Sgobba, who carved the Lightbulb Gravestone in Totowa,
> >> how he thought that this amazing sculpture was done.
> >>
> >> “They took a big chunk of granite, probably three times the size they
> >> needed, and chiseled away.” He said, adding, “It’s quite a nice stone.
> They
> >> probably drove a Mercedes into their shop. It’s all done by sight and
> hand
> >> chisels. It probably took a year-and-a-half to cut that stone.”
> >>
> >> That would mean that by the time this car rolled of the assembly line it
> >> was already a late model, just like its owner.
> >>
> >> Rock of Ages Carved for Thee
> >>
> >> I’d like to share some facts about the stone Mercedes with you and your
> >> readers. First, the car is made of a single block of stone quarried at
> the
> >> Rock of Ages in Graniteville, VT. It was transformed into the stone
> >> Mercedes at their craft center. It was constructed and paid for by Ray
> >> Tse’s older brother. There is a Chinese custom that if you promise
> >> something to someone and they die before the promise can be fulfilled,
> then
> >> you must try and do your best to keep the promise to the deceased
> person.
> >> Thus, the deceased Ray got a Mercedes behind his mausoleum.
> >>
> >> Rock of Ages was very proud of their achievement on the Mercedes.
> >> Supposedly, they got an actual car to take precise measurements from to
> >> create the stone reproduction.
> >>
> >>
> >>
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