Posted on 10/24/2014 11:23:39 PM PDT by lowbridge
It was 1970 and the night of a football game. Jimmy Allen Williams was 16, and he was probably on top of the world.
Just six days earlier, he got himself a blue 1969 Camaro with a white top, considered a primo muscle car back then. And what better way to help break in his new wheels than by taking a drive with a couple of friends?
So 18-year-olds Leah Gail Johnson and Thomas Michael Rios — fellow residents with Williams of Sayre, Oklahoma — piled into the sports car and the trio were supposedly headed for the game.
They were never heard from again.
And this wasn’t the first such disappearance in Sayre. Just a year before 69-year-old John Alva Porter was in a green ’52 Chevy with Cleburn Hammack, 42, and Nora Marie Duncan, 58. The car needed a push to help get it started, and that was the last time anyone saw them.
But just over a year ago when Oklahoma Highway Patrol was conducting a sonar test in murky Foss Lake, officers turned up two cars — a blue 1969 Camaro and a green 1952 Chevy, both with human remains inside.
(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...
Once the car is in the water opening the doors requires enormous effort.You are fighting tons of water pressing on the outside of the door. Rolling down the window or breaking it may be easier.
Accidentally driving into deep water is a nightmare scenario one is unlikely to survive.
Yup.
A high school classmate got a brand new ‘67 396 Chevelle a week after graduation. Another fellow received a very nice ‘66 GTO and would stomp the Chevy any day of the week.
Gasoline was $.19 gallon. A six pack of beer was $.89.
Kinder, gentler times, they were...
Ping
And after school wages were a buck fifty an hour.
We were not hot stuff, just stupid. Small rural town in the south.
Nobody died. The caliber of our guardian angels was great.
I bailed hay for $1/hour. We got a free lunch included.
Hay is baled.
Water is bailed.
Stupid spell checkers and auto-correcting on phones and computers mean many posts and messages get garbled.
Apologies to all those offended...
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