Here are some interesting facts about this very unusual one-piece granite tombstone.
– At $75,000 USD it potentially cost more than the real car.
– at 2,200-pounds it is actually lighter than the real car.
– Oddly it sits on the grave of a Ford engineer.
– It certainly has spawned a good deal of debate.
The headstone belongs to Steve Marsh, an Englishman who loved his BMW M3 so much so that his nickname was "BMW Steve" in life.
Marsh died at an exceptionally early age of just 51-year-old.
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"He was a car enthusiast all his life, he loved cars from a child,"
Steve's daughter told the Daily Mail. "When Mum was in labour
with me, my Dad was outside fixing the nurse's car and got a page when
it was time to come inside. He always drove BMWs, we've all got them. We
couldn't just give him a normal headstone."
The unusual tombstone was installed on the one year anniversary of his death and somebody placed a parking ticket on the windshield as a joke. But some cemetery visitors are a bit concerned about the impression a granite BMW tombstone might generate:
Local resident Rene Dryden said:
You have to admit it's totally different to everything else
around it. It's definitely not my taste. I think some people will say
it's tacky and it could end up as a target to be vandalised. It could
open the floodgates for anything to be built in a cemetery. When I
walked past it the other day, though, I have to admit it did make me
smile.
picture by Peter Lawson
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