Amphicar

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Amphicar:

The Amphicar was built in Germany from 1961 to 1968. Total production was 3,878 vehicles. The Amphicar is the only civilian amphibious passenger automobile ever to be mass produced. 3,046 Amphicars were imported into the United States between 1961 and 1967. The Amphicar is rear engined and uses a 4 cylinder British-built Triumph Herald motor producing 43hp. All Amphicars are convertibles, and the civilian models were originally offered in only 4 colors, Beach White, Regatta Red, Lagoon Blue and Fjord Green (Aqua).

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Amphicar #1

[cls12vg30]

Heh I actually saw one of those once at a car show. I seem to recall reading that they did 0-60 in something like 28 seconds.

[Falcon500]

It to be quite frank was a terrible car...it had hoorendous stearing was very underpowerd and was even worse on the water...its top speedwas 7.5 knotson the water and for a car that was supposed to go on water had 2 very bad problems...sleaing problems and it had a tendancy to rust....there where a few peoplewho tryed to fix its underpowerd problem by installinga triumph Vitesse 6 cylender engine also lead to the car sinking! I still think its funny and was a good diea on paper but rearely do some good ideas translate into sucsess....

[SilverG35SportC]

Thats still prettysweet though. Id like to see a 911 turbo version.... :rolleyes: