MIAMI, June 10 (UPI) -- U.S. authorities will reportedly allow four Cubans who arrived on U.S. shores in a classic car converted into a boat to stay. The creator of the unconventional contraption, Rafael Diaz Rey, his wife and two children will be allowed to stay in the country because they have the proper paperwork, the Florida Sun-Sentinel reported Friday. | "He had the pink slip for the Merc and the inspection sticker was cutrrent" |
U.S. customs officials intercepted the family off the coast of Florida Tuesday in a bright-blue 1948 Mercury.
The apprehension marked the third time in two years the U.S. Coast Guard apprehended a classic jalopy on the seas heading for U.S. shores.
Last year, a 1959 tail-finned Buick -- also piloted by Diaz -- was found off the coast of Marathon, Fla. In 2003, 1951 Chevy truck was caught near Key West. In 1994, Diaz tried navigating the high seas to the states for the first time in a car-boat made out of a 1947 Buick. | Give this guy a guest spot on "Monster Garage". I'll bet Jay Leno or David Letterman will have this guy on, they're both car nuts. |
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