Staying submerged for nearly three decades has left deep scars on this 1986 Nissan Sentra, which was recently recovered from the Merrimack River, near Haverhill, Massachusetts.
The car still had its VIN number visible, and after checking it, a state police officer, who was on the site when the scuba divers of Clean River Project, a nonprofit organization of volunteers, and Coady’s Towing Services of Lawrence, pulled it out, said that it was reported stolen in 1988, according to EagleTribune.
It’s unknown, however, whether the 30-year old Sentra has been at the bottom of the river for the entire 28 years, but the local authorities and green activists are satisfied that it won’t be polluting the river anymore.
This is just one of the six cars removed by the Clean River Project, after the organization obtained a grant from the Massachusetts Environmental Trust, and they plan to recover an additional four by the end of November. The organization will also fish 10 more vehicles out of the river next year, in Haverhill, Lawrence, Methuen, and Dracut, and states that there could be even more, but they need to do a sonar scan of the river in order to find out.
H/T to Jalopnik!