A submerged 1974 Camaro Z28 was discovered deep in Sebago Lake. Authorities recovered the Chevy and identified it through its VIN. Some believe the car broke through ice after being parked on the lake. You never really know what’s hiding at the bottom of your local lake, and most of the time it’s the kind of stuff you’d rather not think about. But we’re willing to bet most of it isn’t this interesting. An underwater explorer recently came across a 1974 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 sitting in the depths of Sebago Lake in Maine, and local authorities are still trying to figure out how the muscle car ended up there. Jason Smith stumbled on the find while exploring the lake with his underwater drone, originally hoping to track down an old snowmobile he’d spotted on a previous trip about a week earlier. He says the Camaro Z28 was resting in roughly 55 feet (17 meters) of water, right in the middle of the channel between Frye Island and the mainland. Read: This 1971 Camaro Has An Interior From Chevy’s Future In the underwater footage shared to Facebook by Smith, the car looks to have been preserved surprisingly well considering it’s likely been sitting in its watery grave for decades. It was swiftly pulled from the lake, although it was damaged in the process. Nevertheless, a partial VIN was found, and the Cumberland County Sheriff’s department was able to determine the full VIN thanks to the local Bureau of Motor Vehicles. How Did It Get Here? Investigators are still trying to identify the original owner, who would presumably know how a Z28 ended up under 55 feet of water. Until then, the explanations are working backward from the wreck. The first theory had the Camaro slipping off the Frye Island ferry. That one came apart quickly. The ferry operators say a car going over the side would have been logged, recovered, and remembered, and none of those things happened. The second theory is insurance fraud, the car driven somewhere quiet and pushed in for a payout. Possible, but harder to prove decades later. The likeliest answer is also the most New England one. The Camaro was probably driven onto the lake when it was frozen, the ice gave out, and the car went down with it.
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