[DeTomaso] Spooky Pantera Photo

[Douglas Kelm]

There were at least 8 construction workers on the bridge at the time of the
collapse. All but one survived the ride down and that one is still missing
as far as I know. Apparently there was NO warning. At last count, 8 people
were listed as missing (most likely trapped in cars pinned to the river
bottom by the underside of the bridge). Not likely to be recovered until the
bridge wreckage can be removed.

The car is still available. Also listed on Craig's list (locally) but I
don't expect much action from that venue. Am thinking of listing the car on
PI's Cars for Sale page  (minimum fee of $150) and might take a stab at
ebay, in which case the reserve price would be significantly higher than the
45K listed here and on the ProvaMo site.

Doug

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "www.ProvaMo.com" <pantera007 at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Douglas Kelm" <dakelm at qwest.net>; <DeTomaso at realbig.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2007 3:02 PM
Subject: RE: [DeTomaso] Spooky Pantera Photo


> 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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