There is a rusting mailbox, an old car disintegrating in the weeds, rows of potato plants, vivid wildflowers and a fine view from the outhouse.
"If you have good stuff available," he said, "why would you want to put questionable materials in the ocean?" Proponents of taking subway cars said that even when the cars disintegrate, they are harmless.
As with the collision involving Britain's McNish in the first hour of the race, his car largely disintegrated in the impact, destroying almost 20 metres of Armco barrier.
All three carriages of the Thames train were derailed in the crash, with the front car virtually disintegrating on impact.
In a modern racing car the driver is encased in a protective capsule designed to remain intact in a crash even though the rest of the car may disintegrate.
Vitor Meira clipped the car driven by the rookie Raphael Matos with 26 laps left, and Meira's disintegrating car slid on its side along the Turn 1 wall before slamming back onto its wheels.
The German was next to stop before the safety car again came out on lap 45 when Timo Glock ran wide at turn 12 and his car began to disintegrate down the straight after hitting bumps in the grass.
The story led the television newscasts at breakfast time, with frequent replays of the fireball that Wheldon's cartwheeling, disintegrating car became, and the melancholy sight of his fellow drivers staging a memorial parade in his memory.
Less skilled drivers will, of course, lose plenty of speed as tyres skid and the chassis grinds along barriers, but your car won't disintegrate at the first hint of impact, or go into a deathly tail spin with every misjudgement of oversteer.
Barrichello and Fisichella then collided in the pit-lane on lap 26, heavily damaging the Honda's front wing, and requiring Barrichello to drive the whole lap with a disintegrating car, before retiring into his team's garage.
