[DeTomaso] Spooky Pantera Photo

[www.ProvaMo.com]

I'm updating my ProvaMo website for sale page....
I was just back looking at the For Sale photos of your car, and didn't
realize it was THAT bridge!

Yikes!

With all the superficial / surface work being done you might think the
construction guys saw something before hand
to give an indication it was at risk.  Maybe now we will increase the
maint/repair of our aged infrastructure nation-wide.


BTW:  Your car is still for sale?

For anyone interested this is a *very* worthy car.

Chuck

-----Original Message-----
From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com]On
Behalf Of Douglas Kelm
Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2007 12:17 PM
To: DeTomaso at realbig.com
Subject: [DeTomaso] Spooky Pantera Photo


If you click on the link below, you will see in the background three
structures that span the Mississippi River in Minneapolis. The closest
visible span (six silver beams atop concrete pillars) is a service walkway
atop the dam that is adjacent to Lock #2 on the Mississippi. Directly behind
that (a network of steel trusses that appear dark gray in the photo but are
actually green) is the bridge that is no more. (Anyone who has watched or
listened to the national news this week knows what I'm talking about.)
Behind the (now fallen) truss bridge is a concrete arch bridge (light gray
in the photo), a few hundred feet downstream from the stricken bridge, that
is still standing and was unharmed by the 35W interstate bridge disaster. I
had driven the pictured Pantera over the now destroyed bridge countless
times in the last ten years, and as recently a two weeks ago. Plus, I have
driven my daily driver UNDER the approach spans, also fallen, on the south
end of the bridge hundreds of times in the 35 years I've lived here. I could
have easily been on or under that bridge on Wednesday when is fell and,
thankfully, four of the eight lanes were closed for deck repair or the
carnage would likely have been twice as bad.  The linked photo was shot from
a scenic parking area midway between Lock #1 and Lock #2, on the southern
bank of the river as it flows west to east just north of downtown.

Doug Kelm
Yellow #2886 1972 Pre-L Pantera


www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=354623042&size=l
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