October 26, 2009
Back in the middle Sixties, the Germans brought us the Amphicar. It was a quaint looking little car boat combo powered by a Triumph Herald engine putting out a whopping 38 horsepower. This made for top speeds of 7 knots on water and 70 mph on land. It sat 4 people and more or less [...]
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December 28, 2007
I love Kevin Kelly’s Street Use blog, as he comes out with some of the coolest automotive hacks. This time it’s an old stake truck converted to a barge with the use of steel drums, with the propeller being powered by the truck’s engine. It’s use? Why ferrying Cubans to Miami of course.
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