It’s our understanding that a guy named Bernd Weise, a member of the Amphicar Club in Berlin, recently “drove” his 1961 Amphicar car down the Grand Canal in Venice.
A bit of enlightening research clued us in to the fact that this Amphicar is not just a toy produced by some guy in his back yard. It seems that the Amphicars were built in Germany between 1961 and 1968, a period in which 3878 vehicles were produced. The only civilian amphibious passenger that was ever mass produced, they’re rear-engined, they’re fitted out with a 4 cylidner British-built Triumph Herald motor that produces 43 hp, and they’re all convertibles – which, of course, is as it should be. We learned that on the history of the Amphicar site, where there’s much more.
If you want to get your own amphicar, click here.
For more photos, go to La Repubblica, the source of these.
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