History Lake drained in effort to find lost antique cars.

Early 1900s archive photos show several antique cars with their drivers on a frozen lake just before they all sagged through the ice and dissapeared .( 1st pic ) forever. Lake stahw-pu-etam is not to far from here. In the late 1930s a new search only recovered one car .( 2nd pic ) Now the lake has been drained and quite a few surprises saw the light of day again. Biggest surprise ( last pic ) was a 1936 Packard in remarkable condition, showing just how well built Packard was in the 1930s. Enjoy but dont, be foolish and drive on frozen lakes.

 

April fool??

 

I read the story on that Camaro a while back. Forget where it was,but four kids went missing and they found that car at the bottom several years later....

 

.............and never ever go fishing on the highway.

 

....................and in one of the cars, they found a Sasquatch.

 

That Packard on the bottom rolled into a pond in 2016. Bob

http://autoweek.com/article/car-life/pricy-packard-plunged-pond

 

https://www.google.com/amp/www.nyda...ars-recovered-oklahoma-lake-article-1.1459571

 

Three kids in the Camaro around '70; three adults in the Chevy about a year earlier, but those were accidents that just drove into the water.
There was a '50 Ford that went through the ice on Lake Waubesa in Wisconsin back in '61; it was found in 2006 and recovered along with the bones of the two guys who were in it:

In the meantime, there's still a two-tone beige '58 Chevy Biscayne that disappeared in Nebraska in 1973 along with the elderly couple driving it:
https://www.sewardindependent.com/w...cle_3abc144e-f955-11e2-b0b0-0019bb30f31a.html

 

I know people that have been underwater with cost of their cars

 

Was this "based" on a true story?

 

The Bugatti "Lady in the Lake" is one of the most famous. I got to see it back in January, and met the man who lost it in a poker game, Bugatti factory driver Rene Dreyfus.

Bob

 

There is a model A p/u at the bottom of shuswsap lake here with the rope and tobagan attached. It's a protected diver attraction.

 

That '50 Shoebox looks remarkably good for spending 45 years under water.

 

I wonder how much that Porsche will go for

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My '32 tudor that was rescued from an underwater grave........full restoration almost finished!



NOT!!! Happy April 1st!

 

You had me until I saw the Camaro which I read about earlier and then the date hit me.

 

LMAO !! Good one. And that would be me.

 

That's one Camaro that won't get restored.....