Hmm, I'm not sure if the following story fits here or not - the car being neither buried nor it's fate being mysterious, but it's probably as near a fit as I'm going to find on the boards!
As a nipper, my family spent many wonderful weekends at
St Mary's Loch in the Scottish borders. My father and I both sailed on the loch, and during our sojourns there I made the acquaintance of an elderly local 'character' called Sid, who lived in a hut at the west end of the loch. Sid made his living during the summer by occasional shepherding or gamekeeping duties, and by hand-carving walking sticks that he sold to the tourists.
Sid once told me a story that went something like this:
Many years previously, during a long cold winter, during which the loch had frozen over, some of the locals gathered in the bar of the Rodono Hotel (now a private house), which overlooked the loch. The then owner of the hotel, along with his wife, was planning on emigrating to Australia but was concerned about his car; an immaculate Model T Ford, that was his pride and joy*. The owner couldn't afford to take it with him, but nor could he
thole the thought of someone else owning it if he sold it.
Considerable beer and whisky having been consumed, it was decided to ensure that the car would never fall into someone else's hands and the inebriated company clambered into the vehicle, drove it onto the loch, and then slipped and skidded their way back over the ice on foot to the warmth of the hotel bar.
A few days later a thaw set in, the ice began to melt, and the Model T sank to it's final resting place at the bottom of the loch.
Even as a twelve or thirteen year old I was somewhat skeptical of the above tale.
However, through the Internet, I've recently found that it's quite widely known. Although the accounts on the net ascribe the sinking to 'high-society' high-jinks rather than inebriated locals, I'm inclined to believe Sid; who was, so he claimed, one of those drunken passengers that night.
From
this site
Folklore
Rodono House
We used to think that the following was an old wives tale but its true! In 1934 the inhabitants of Rodono House a Victorian Hunting lodge on the banks of the loch were having one of their famous partys when a couple of inebriated guests drove the car (a model T Ford presumably in Black) out on to the frozen loch and left it there and when the thaw came it sunk.
Now exactly where it is today god only knows, but the local sub aqua club have had numerous dives in the area in which it was known to have sunk to see if they could find any remnants of the car and to date have come up empty handed. So if you have difficulty in pulling in your anchor it may just be that a model T Ford is on the end of it, if so let us know.
According to the locals, the bottom of St Marys loch is also home to an old tractor which was pushed out on to the frozen loch one day when its useful working life had come to an end.
The loch is also known as the "silent loch" and is reputed to be the coldest loch in Scotland!
Some more on the
Rodono Hotel - among other things the refuge to which the late
Mandy Rice-Davies fled when the
Profumo scandal broke.
* Sid described the car as being one of those that was so dear to it's owner that it rarely left the garage for fear of the sun fading it's paint, it's finish being marred by stone-chips, or, heaven forbid, rain raising the possibility of rust!
