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Amphibian Car Watercar:A new innovation I’ll give gas, I’ll wet / Strange News

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Sail arounding the car – from this crude tinkerers dream amazing hermaphrodites repeatedly emerged. But most Amphicars are only suitable for chugging. Two Americans have now brought a copy to the production stage, which can be downright hunt over the water.

Actually Dave March just wanted something to do with his son Chad. The late fifties from the California Newport Beach had sold his body building firm, the diary was pretty empty. So March bought a run-down Amphicar and made the built in Germany Schwimmwagen with his junior back on the road. “The restoration was great, but then it was dead boring,” said March, “to chug with not even ten things across the water, is soporific.”

Father and son wanted to know if that’s not fast – and started the development of its own amphibious vehicle. That was 15 years ago. Since then, put father and son March plenty of money and time in the project, made ​​half a dozen prototypes and now have a model at the start, which is mature and should be immediately manufactured in series production: the Watercar.

Operation with ten employees in Fountain Valley, an hour inland from Long Beach, has started work recently. The Watercar that is being built here, not only looks sleeker than the Amphicar, started it all, it is also much more modern, reliable and spacious. And it is really fast. Very fast even. With a top speed of 70 km / h on the water and around the 130 things on land, the inventors praise the Watercar as one of the fastest amphibious car in the world.

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If Selby, almost without the pace to slow, heading off the road onto the gravel and then plunges into the harbor, this is a show. He has previously not close valves or flaps or caulk. Selby stands as self-evident in the lake, as would depart from the highway a normal car.

Made possible by a sophisticated drive system, in whose center a V6 engine from the Honda Odyssey minivan is. The 250-hp and 3.7-liter engine powers normally to the rear axle. But if Selby flipping a switch in the cockpit, includes a transfer case and directs the force in the first step in half and in the second stage then complete a jet nozzle on. The can boil the water behind the Watercar formally expresses the bow in the air and drives the four-seater so fast over the waves that you could even take water skiers in tow.

“The hook on the aft deck is not just decoration,” roars the Captain to mutated driver in the roaring mixture of sea spray and wind, while the Watercar drifts around the buoys, as if Ken Block changed the item.

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The powerful drive is only half the secret of success . The other is the distinctive shape of the Water Cars, says Selby and therefore does not mean the SUV design, but the subfloor. Where normal cars have a virtually flat bottom plate , there are actually a trunk at the American self-made . And so the wheels are not at full throttle in the way , attracting a hydraulic tires on the push of a button within a few seconds – as if a turtle gets the legs in the tank.

On this construction, March and Selby have filed a long time. ” After each test run we got the car out of the water, it turned to the back and back a few inches weggehobelt ” Selby reported by the search for the perfect shape , which is crucial for a stable position in the water . And that was just a problem that needed to be solved. The others were: How to seal the structure around the self-designed tube frame with the developed in-house fiberglass body from ? How to achieve the necessary stability ? And what tricks are there to stop corrosion in salt water?

The requirements of the authorities were against it almost a no-brainer. Because March and Selby somewhere in the bowels of a part from an old VW bus block , nor is the VIN number on the self-construction is considered to be converted classic cars and sailed around most of admission criteria. Only the lifejackets on the thin seats , the inflatable lifeboat in the luggage compartment under the front hood and the cable in the footwell , the Coast Guard made ​​mandatory . An anchor in turn can save the two inventors . “What we should also use ” asks Selby . “Where other boats to anchor , we roll on land and just drive home.”

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For refreshing Watercar-games comes inventor March now only rarely. For out of the original father-son project is now yet again become a business. March bought back his old company to produce the Watercar in series.

Although the Watercar costs $ 135,000, the response has been tremendous. Not only in military and civil advocates, the March and Selby out of concern for secrecy and too strict requirements do not really want to deliver. But above all very wealthy clients have discovered the vehicle as a perfect toy. “Although we can not with a super sports car with a racing boat still compete,” Selby admits, “but a combination as we no offers.” No wonder, then, that the production of the first year is already sold and a “high two-digit number” of orders in the books is.

About half of the Water Cars does not remain in the U.S. but is exported. Where? “Everywhere there where the money sits. In the Emirates, China and Russia,” Selby says. “We would of course also deliver to Germany. Just to the approval, the customer would have to take care of there myself.”

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Selby and March call their Watercar the “fastest amphibious car in the world”. However, this is not entirely true. And of course also Selby and March by the Briton Alan Gibbs and his amphibious vehicle Aquada heard, with which he crossed the English Channel in a record time of 90 minutes.

March and Selby Mister Gibbs have already proposed an amphibious forces fairs. Selby: “We have given him an invitation for a race sent. From London to Paris in one go, not by ferry or through the tunnel, but of course over the water” An answer has been.

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