Just found this news item. Sorry could not transfer the picture.<br><br>Posted on Thu, Jul. 24, 2003 <br> <br>Creative Cuban migrants halted by the Coast Guard<br>BY JENNIFER BABSON<br>jbabson@herald.com<br><br> <br>More photos <br> <br>TRUCK-DRIVING MEN: Cuban migrants using a 1951 Chevy flatbed truck turned into a raft in an attempt to cross the straits to Florida on July 16. GREGORY WALD/U.S. COAST GUARD <br><br> <br>KEY WEST - Over the past four decades, Cubans desperate to reach the United States have crossed the perilous Florida Straits in just about anything that floats: Surfboards. Inner tubes. Homemade rafts.<br><br>But it's hard to top the latest entrant in the maritime scramble: a 1951 Chevy flatbed truck.<br><br>The green truck, tires still on, was mounted on a pontoon made of 55-gallon drums. The makeshift vessel even sported a propeller, attached to the truck's drive shaft.<br><br>It was cruising along at a leisurely 8 mph, with a driver behind the wheel, when it was spotted by a U.S. government plane 40 miles south of Key West on July 16.<br><br>Cameron Hintzen, supervisor for the U.S. Border Patrol in the Keys, has seen his share of Cuban contraptions that have made the crossing. But Hintzen, who saw photos of the truck at sea, called it ``the most creative vessel I have seen so far.''<br><br>Ingenuity, however, didn't translate to success. The U.S. Coast Guard took the dozen Cubans aboard the truck back to the island last weekend.<br><br>The Coast Guard, calling the truck a ''hazard to navigation,'' sank it.<br> <br>

 

I seen the picture today...they finally found a good use for a Chevy

 

[quote author=Mexstan link=board=10;threadid=17488;start=0#163797 date=1059087479]<br><br>The Coast Guard, calling the truck a ''hazard to navigation,'' sank it.<br>[/quote]<br><br>Bottom of the ocean...best place for a Chevy

 

What?..........nobody went for the obvious?

Like A Rock ;D

Sorry Chevy guys....it was just toooo easy.

It's still a shame to waste an old classic truck like that.

 

[quote author=TX Ram link=board=10;threadid=17488;start=0#163832 date=1059091990]<br>[quote author=Mexstan link=board=10;threadid=17488;start=0#163797 date=1059087479]<br><br>The Coast Guard, calling the truck a ''hazard to navigation,'' sank it.<br>[/quote]<br><br>Bottom of the ocean...best place for a Chevy <br>[/quote]<br><br>Careful boys - - we have new guests on our forum. We must not antagonize them or make them feel they are not welcome. :P <br><br>PoliticianBob (hey, I need all your votes - - not just you crazee Ram nuts. :-* )<br>

 

Craziest thing I ever saw . <br><br> But ya know ... you have to give them credit for creating such a contraption and making it work. The un-sinkable Titanic sank, remember ? <br><br> When a chevy breaks down on land, a guy can always coast to the side of the road ... so what happens when he is cruising in 300 feet of shark infested water ??<br><br>PISTOL<br><br>

 

Here's the pic.<br>Kinda small, but anywayz.<br>There's probably a better one somewhere out there.<br><br><br><br><br>phox

 

It's too bad that they sank it, cool old trucks like that are rare. First thing I thought when I saw it on tv was that the Cubans could sell it and earn some good starting out cash. And you know that they take care of their autos in cuba, since they don't get any new ones. ;D

 

[quote author=Shovelhead link=board=10;threadid=17488;start=0#163836 date=1059092190]<br>What?..........nobody went for the obvious?<br><br>Like A Rock ;D <br><br>Sorry Chevy guys....it was just toooo easy.<br><br>It's still a shame to waste an old classic truck like that. <br>[/quote]<br><br>Dan Rather used the &quot;Like a Rock&quot; line on the evening news last night.I laughed and laughed when I heard it.A perfect line!!!<br> Ron

 

It's sad that they sank the Chevy boattruck. The truck probably would be worth something at the auction.<br><br>MikeyB

 

you should get those guys to compete in junkyard wars.

 

is that a snow plow in the front?

 

Isn't there a law against riding in the bed of trucks?