Focus on Hope Cemetery: Joey Laguerre loved cars, but he died in a snowmobile accident in 1991. Left behind was his race car, #61. It became, in a half-size granite replica, his chariot to the afterlife. But it also became one of the signature sculptures of Barre's granite masons: proof positive that Italy's loss was America's gain. [2002]
For another tombstone with a large size NASCAR machine with all the sponsors' names and stickers, and etchographic portraits of the two fans, see:
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Once there, click the 2 links.
The car is absolutely faithfully represented; it was Mark Martin's #6, to see a photo of the actual car, google "Mark Martin cars", once there click "Images".
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... and then rolled in Brigadier Cal Yber' granite howitzer; the blond Carribbean marble combine harvester for old Mac Donald followed soon afterwards. Within a few years time the cemetery had taken on the airs of an outdoors Smithsonian Museum cum industrial fair. In the neighborhood it was rumored that from these hundreds of stone vehicles, on some moonless nights, seeped out "kind of like a low idling of many diesel engines, you know", a few had even heard dull muffled reports of artillery guns that had iced them to the bones and in no time dampened their spirits in spite of all the shots they'd had before.
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