yeah but you would have to cut a bunch of it
away to get to the charger part.
Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes wrote:
It would be a good starter tombstone.
On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 10:33 AM, Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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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