We've all been there. It's getting late in the bar, everyone's had a few, and someone takes on a silly bet. But it's one thing dancing on the pool table singing "Like a Virgin", swinging your shirt around your head, and quite another driving across a frozen lake in a Ford sedan in the dead of night.The story goes that 46 years ago a man in a bar in Stockbridge, a village in Calumet County, Wisconsin, took a bet that he couldn't drive over the frozen Lake Winnebago to Oshkosh. Who knows what the wager was, but it was apparently enough for him to stride outside, get in his four-door 1973 Ford Galaxie 500, start it up, and attempt to drive around ten miles over the ice of Wisconsin's largest inland lake. Almost five decades later, the mystery of whether he made it appears to have been solved. It Was A Crazy Idea... But It Might Just Work? YouTube/ WLUK-TV FOX 11Er, no, it turns out the man should have kept his money in his pocket, and the Ford Galaxie in the parking lot. Local fisherman Randy Bodinger recently spotted the car on the bottom of the lake using an underwater scanner. The Ford had been there for almost 50 years, and the barroom tale of how it ended up there was, until now, just another urban myth. The truth is, according to reports, that the man made it around two miles out onto the lake before the ice gave up under the 4,200 lb sedan, and he managed to jump out before it sunk to the bottom. The Owner Then Headed Back To The Bar YouTube/ WLUK-TV FOX 11 Following the escapade, the owner then walked back to the bar in soaking-wet clothes. "There are many discrepancies on the car and the true story. It's been told now for 45, 46 years now. Who really knows what the deal is?" asked Tom Zahringer of Stockbridge. However, he added: "A lot of people thought this story was fake and made up, but obviously it is not." The Galaxie Isn't Driving Anywhere Anytime Soon Experts from Sunk Dive Ice took care of the recovery of the car, bringing an ice cutting machine and a crane, with a diver going into the lake to secure the car. It took four hours to start to pull the red Galaxie up, which, in the spring sunshine of Wisconsin, didn't look too bad at first. Upon closer inspection, the car had deteriorated somewhat in the water, with the roof all but eaten away by rust, and the windshield and rear window missing. The interior was filled with mud and clams and snail shells clung to what remained of the metalwork. Will The Ford Galaxie Be Heading To A Local Museum? YouTube/ WLUK-TV FOX 11 But despite the fact that the car was visibly falling apart while it was hosed down, having been dragged across the ice by a pickup, this might not be the end of its story. One man working on the rescue said that the Galaxie had attracted a lot of attention, with many people traveling to see it. "We'll let it sit here [as a] talkpiece [sic] for a little while, but then we'll see if somebody wants it." To be fair, the Galaxie isn't the first car to end up in a lake, and it probably won't be the last.