Transportation

On September 17, Remember the Amphicar

49 years ago, two of history's greatest boat-car hybrids heroically traversed the English Channel.
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As long as there have been cars, there has been a "car of the future"—and for most of the last century, that's meant one that flies, drives itself, or both.

But for a brief, heady time, tomorrow's car was the Amphicar—"the sportscar that swims."