TITLE

Hail, Detroit

AUTHOR(S)

Ferguson, G.

PUB. DATE

June 1992

SOURCE

U.S. News & World Report;6/22/92, Vol. 112 Issue 24, p22

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Discusses why Jim Reinders, the 64-year-old creator of Carhenge, finds the gray heap of cars rising from a wheat field near Alliance, Neb. unsettling. An exact replica of England's ancient Stonehenge; Reinders intends to replace three of the Japanese cars with American-made cars; He needs 10 more cars to make Carhenge complete.

ACCESSION #

9206221066

 

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