wvantiques
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I didn't exactly find this with my detector but did dig it up. I was working for a Federal agency in Massachusetts in the early 1980's. We had high school kids working with us for the summer and I had them clearing a new trail over a hill. They came in the office and said they had hit a big piece of metal just under the leaf litter. I went back to the hill with them and said we would just dig it up. About an hour later it was pretty obvious it was an old top of a car so we kept digging that day and the next and uncovered a 1930 Plymouth coupe. Still had the engine, windows and tires (one still had some air in it). I thought maybe we had found Judge Crater's burial vault (look him up on Google). I called the State Police to see if they might want to try to find out who had buried an entire car on top of a hill in the woods but they couldn't care less. I thought sure when I opened the trunk that either a skeleton or bank loot would fall out but all that was in there were hickory nuts and chipmunk nests. The boss where I worked let a junkyard owner have the car just for towing it away, last I heard he was restoring it.
