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Vision Of Jesus At Dade City Auto Dealer?

Tribune photo by ANDY JONES

Ruth Johnson is at her desk (at left) in the showroom. Another employee passes through in a wheelchair.

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Andy Jones

Published: February 9, 2009

Updated: 02/09/2009 02:22 pm

DADE CITY - An office door that opens into the showroom at Jarrett Ford Lincoln Mercury in Dade City is getting some attention after a vendor for the dealership noticed that the wood grain in the door looks like Jesus or possibly the shroud of Turin.

A media saleswoman, Ann Licate, said the image looked like Sasquatch.

One employee, Ruth Johnson, said the door has been there for possibly 10 years but is often open and the wood grain of the door's surface is not often visible.

Finance manager Jim Ballard recalled that about two years ago the then-sales manager pointed to the door and said "You better be careful, you're being watched".

The man who now occupies that office, sales manager Darryl Collins, has no plans to get rid of the door.

"With what's going on in our country today people hang hope on anything." said Collins. "I'm not going to switch doors with nobody."

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