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Over $115,000 for an Amphicar!?!?!?!

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Leave it to the nuts at Barrett-Jackson to bid an Amphicar to $115,000 (not including the buyer's premium.)

We are talking about a car that struggles to do 60mph on the road and 5mph on the lake. Nice Triumph engine /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

Last time I checked, the going rate was about $30,000.
 
I saw that!
Amphicar-owners everywhere are rejoicing!
I have a student who has a nice one.
Personally, it's hard to imagine lusting over an Amphicar.....but to each his own!
That Herald/Spitfire engine is somehow mated to a VW transaxle in those things.
 
This brings up a segue: What was the "flying car" Bob Cummings was s'posed to own in his mid-fifties TeeVee show? Can't recall the name of the show, he was playnig some sort of photog; "Early California" type B.S... somewhere around the time of "My Little Margie", "December Bride" and "The Gail Storm Show."

--- anyone have a better synapse connection?

EDIT: Zazu Pitts!!! --- No CLUE why she just popped into mind...
 
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Can't recall the name of the show, he was playnig some sort of photog; "Early California" type B.S... somewhere around the time of "My Little Margie", "December Bride" and "The Gail Storm Show."

--- anyone have a better synapse connection?

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"Love That Bob" - Don't remember a flying car, but I believe he was a pilot.

(Guess you and I suffer the same malady!)

Mickey
 
Oh, and his secretary? Schultzie, played by Ann B. Davis, who later was the live-in for the Brady Bunch.

Mickey
 
I think the car was scrapped after the first "season". I recall being disappointed.

Davis seemed to reiterate the "Schultzie" persona with her BB character... tho I rarely watched it. Bit too "bubblegum".
 
Probably the "Taylor Aerocar" (Mr. Taylor also created the "Taylor Cub" which became the "Piper Cub").
The thing was "convertable"....leave the wings at the airport and off you go down the highway! There's one in the EAA Museum and a few others around that are still flyable.

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I saw one of those at the Museum of Flight in Seattle; very interesting. (There was also an Aeronca C-2 and a C-3B)
Chris
 
There is a guy here in town only a few blocks from me that has 3 of those Amphicars, he drives one regularly, hardly a week goes by without seeing it on the road a few times. Bet he is a happy camper today with that price.
 
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Davis seemed to reiterate the "Schultzie" persona with her BB character...

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She has an identical twin sister here in Tucson -- we volunteer at the same place. No Schultzie persona there but odd nonetheless to see one and think of the other.

When I was 8 years old Bob Cummings was a pretty good role model. Never wanted an Amphicar though.
 
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Leave it to the nuts at Barrett-Jackson to bid an Amphicar to $115,000 (not including the buyer's premium.)

We are talking about a car that struggles to do 60mph on the road and 5mph on the lake. Nice Triumph engine /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

Last time I checked, the going rate was about $30,000.

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Waitaminute...you think I paid too much? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/jester.gif

I saw that price and just about fainted....I realize it was probably the best Amphicar in the world, but isnt that like being the best envelope licker in town? IE, a little bit pointless?

-Wm.
 
There are literally dozens of Amphicars here in the Seattle-Tacoma area that are that nice. Most of them are considered to be $30,000 cars. There's one guy in Tacoma that has eight of them.

I will say one thing -- last night's prices fell a little. A nice Porsche 930 Turbo for $40,000 isn't bad. Also some vanilla hot rods in the $30K range.
 
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Probably the "Taylor Aerocar" (Mr. Taylor also created the "Taylor Cub" which became the "Piper Cub").
The thing was "convertable"....leave the wings at the airport and off you go down the highway! There's one in the EAA Museum and a few others around that are still flyable.

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Not to pick a nit...ok I am /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif The Taylor Aerocar was designed by Molt Taylor, he also designed and marketed the IMP and Mini-Imp homebuilts that resembled the Aerocar. The IMP-series borrowed the overall mid-engined, pusher design of the Aerocar but with a sleek glider-like fuselage with retractable gear.

The Taylor Cub first hit the market when Molt was only 9 years old, produced by the Taylor Aircraft Co led by CG Taylor in 1930. William Piper was one of the stockholders in the original Taylor Aircraft Co and bought out CG Taylor that resulted in Piper's version of the original "cub". CG Taylor went on to create Taylorcraft.

Ok I'm done, time to go back to the Wag Aero catalog to see how much one is going to cost me to build! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
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