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Pick-up truck kept sealed in garage for 39 years by angry father revealed in Turkey
Pick-up truck kept sealed in garage for 39 years by angry father revealed in Turkey
Locals in a northern Turkish town have opened a garage with no entrance 39 years after an angry father decided to keep a pick-up truck there. Click through for the story in photos...
Muhammet Gören from the Şalpazarı district of Turkey’s Black Sea province of Trabzon was 38 years old when he bought a brand-new pick-up truck in 1975.
The truck, which was one of the first motorized vehicles in the remote village, was used by Gören and his family for four years to transport groceries. An argument over the question on who will drive the truck erupted between Gören and with his sons in 1979. Fearing that his sons may crash the truck, Gören locked the vehicle up in a makeshift garage. The sons later migrated to another city and Gören died in 2009.
Demirören News Agency reported on Dec. 10 that locals recently unsealed the garage, which now stands above the ground level and has no connection to any road.
The Dodge, which was not used for 39 years, was found in dust with a decayed car body and tires.
Bayram Gören, one of the sons of the deceased owner of the truck, told the agency that they can sell the car as an antique if they can find a buyer.
“If they can sell it and make it work, they will not be able to take the truck out of this garage because there is no entrance or exit to a road,” a local warned.
“It actually is junk,” the late owner’s nephew Kazım Gören added.
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