Urbanna, Virginia: Mark Cline Muffler Man (In Transition)
This 2014 "Cline" manufacture is recognizable by the shorter height (15 feet) and oversized head. Custom-made for the camp resort, he clutches an ice cream scooper and cone to serve giant golf balls.
Bethpage Camp Resort
- Directions:
- Bethpage Camp Resort. From US Hwy 17/Tidewater Trail turn north onto Hwy 616/Town Bridge Rd (You'll see a Bethpage Camp Resort sign on the south side of US Hwy 17, pointing the way). Drive north 2.5 miles. Turn left onto Hwy 602/Old Virgina St. Drive a half-mile. You'll see the Muffler Man on the right, next to an ice cream shop and the Cowtopia minigolf course.
- Hours:
- 2024: In the shop fro repairs. (Call to verify)
- Phone:
- 804-758-4349
- Admission:
- Free
- Status:
- In Transition
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A Mark Cline Muffler Man is ready to use his giant ice cream scoop on a giant golf ball.
[Leo Cecil, 05/25/2025]Apparently kids keep climbing on it and damaging it. It is currently in the hospital for repairs. Supposedly this is the second time that this has happened. It may not come back, according to the people who work in the ice cream shop.
[Pony, 06/21/2024]
Cooler at night.
[Peggy Mason, 05/07/2019]And scarier! Ground lighting really illuminates the threat of a 15-foot-tall man with a six-foot-long ice cream scoop.
Muffler Man holding ice cream scoop and golf ball.
[Jane Trueblood, 01/20/2015]The "golf ball" is supposed to be a scoop of pistachio ice cream; Mark Cline fashioned it from a giant golf ball mold as a joke.
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The short height of this early Mark Cline creation may make it more tempting to climb, and might help to explain why traditional Muffler Men are as tall as they are.