Pretty cool.
From today’s Star Tribune:
A Model T Ford is sitting upside down in the Mississippi River in Winona, and authorities are trying to figure out how it got there.
About half of the car is buried in the river’s sandy bottom about 20 feet below the surface and a short distance downstream from the Hwy. 43 bridge that connects Minnesota and Wisconsin, said Winona County Chief Deputy Ron Ganrude.
The car, which must be at least 86 years old, was first detected on Oct. 9, when the county was getting a demonstration of a side scan sonar device, Ganrude said.
Three weeks later, the device’s owner and members of the county dive team returned and recorded video images of the car.
No, there is no one inside the car, Ganrude said.
Since word first circulated of the car’s existence, “people have been calling [Sheriff Dave Brand] who remember things from long ago. He’s heard three of four different stories for why the car is there,” the chief deputy said.
Anyone with information about the vehicle is asked to call the sheriff’s office at 1-507-457-6368.
Ford produced more than 15 million Model T’s from 1908 to 1927. It was the first automobile mass produced on a moving assembly line.
