Low-tide muddy find! What is it?

Wanna sell the hippo?

 

It's not mine to sell...And with its new fame it will probably get all primadonna and expensive!!!

 

memories that last a life time

 

The story is too good to not build the car. People's heads will explode when they see the "before" pics

 

Yep, you gotta build something now.

 

I knew I should have drug that Model A cowl and door out of the woods... and I thought IT was rough! LOL!!!

 

I agree!
The remains of a 33 Willys floating on barrels being towed across a lake at low tide by a man in a hippotimus shaped paddle boat.....sounds like a heavy drink/drug inhanced tale without the pics to prove it!

 

That is so awesome ! lol

 

Man you just cant make this kinda stuff up!!!!!!

hahahaha

Great story,that damn Hippo paddle boat sent me off my bar stool i laughed so hard...

 

wow that looked like the industreal way slew, you want a real treat got to clatsknine and check old jim house towings yard he in his mid 80 and has more cars then you can count, around 200 acares or so.

 

Wow!

 

Screw the Willys, build the Hippo!

This saga reminds me of this car:
1933 Plymouth coupe, yes we dug it out, and it sucked. the car wasn't that bad under the dirt. My brother got hard up for cash and sold it. It went to a hamber, but I never heard if it got built or not.

 

It's actually Birnie Slough on Puget Island in Cathlamet.

I have heard of Jim's place out there...it is the stuff of legends!

 

I can honestly say that I feel your pain!

Someone has to know who has it! I'd like to see it after the dig!

 

It's the remains of Muddy Mudskipper.

 

Let's see more pics of it cleaned up. Did you determine the make and year? - great story!

 

Dude, that cars deserves to be on the road. You'll laugh your ass off anytime someone tells you he passed on a project 'cause it wasn't salvageable...

You guys rule.

 

Freakin awesome, hats off to you, now lets see some better picks

 

[] now lets see some better picks [/QUOTE]

Better picks? As in 'Pickers' the TV show? It doesn't get any better than this one! Better pix as in pictures, yeah maybe. Give the guy a few days, he'll have it running in no time.
Fearless

 

I'm glad you have pics for proof because your future grand-kids would think you were fibbing when you told the story. Car, tide, barrels, hippo

Great story. Way to go!

 

That... is.... AWESOME!!!

I agree. Nobody will believe that story.

Two men and a Willys were saved this afternoon by a pedal powered Hippo authorities say. The rescue was required after the car lost a barrel keeping it afloat.

That newsflash would drive enough curiosity to have CNN at your house by dinner.

 

the only thing I can add is...

 

how many dudes can say they drove their car across the pond floated on top of empty barrels pulled by a fiberglass pedal powered hippo ??? and i thought only the hippies had a long strange trip ??? truly a legendary thread

 

Love these stories. Reminds me of one I read once where these guys rescued a 1918 Fordson tractor (with the cleat wheels) off a boggy island. They waited till the lake froze and towed it behind another tractor.

 

I have a metal detector if you have a shovel.

 

All time greatest fucking HAMB thread ever!! So cool!

Lesbians got nothing on you, cuz you the man when it comes to dike finds

Now go find a cool marine engine to put in it!!

-Shiny

 

It looks like an old rusty car with a bunch of mud,grass and some mossy shit!

 

EPIC!! Just awesome!!!

 

Wow... you got some balls to do that. Makes me think this is hope for this....

 

cool find good back section too