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Subscribe to commentsChris ParadisoJan 5th 2011 6:31AM
My birthday is coming - SOMEBODY BUY ME THIS! I want one!
mwalsh4357Jan 5th 2011 6:44AM
I have a '69 VW 2 door sedan with 49 K original miles, no rust. It sports a special set of hubcaps on the rear wheels with small vanes. I've seen an indicated 27 MPH on calm seas. The turning of the front wheels provide decent directional steering ability. I get a minimal amount of water seepage in via the door seals. And that little air cooled engine loves to be water cooled. First $150000 and it's all yours. Regular factory hubcaps included at that price.
TimJan 5th 2011 7:31AM
Wow, I wouldn't pay $20,000 for that thing. What a waste of time, money, and gas. I paid $27,800 for my car, it does the same as this thing, looks cooler, and goes faster on water and land.
ROBJan 5th 2011 8:00AM
I WOULDN'T GIVE YOU THE POWDER TO BLOW THING TO HELL!!!
BARGAINBAYUSAJan 5th 2011 8:25AM
HECK THE BEVERLY HILLBILLYS BUILT ONE OF THESE THEY USED OLD MOONSHINE JUGS FOR THE PONTOON PART & OLD SCRAP WOOD FOR THE BOAT BUT THEY TOPPED IT OFF WITH A 1700 SQUARE FOOT HOUSE * IT RAN OFF 5 1967 PONTIAC FIREBIRD 400 ENGINES & IT FLEW ALSO ***************** THEY CALLED IT THE FLYING CAR HOUSE BOAT ******************
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THE COST OF BUILDING IT WAS ONLY $10,000.00 * CAUSE THEY WERE ON A TIGHT BUDGET *
oilriggasJan 5th 2011 9:57AM
@Ella Hey, maybe OBAMA could break into "his"stash to get you that Porsche.
ruthsgardensJan 5th 2011 10:04AM
This is not a hydro-car.It is exactly the opposite.It is a pontoon boat that drives on land.You don't have to be an Einstein to see what is wrong here.His problem is resistance and water offers a lot of that.Four tires in the water offer less resistance than 2 large pontoons.Even if you make the pontoons narrow at the bottom which it looks like he tried to do.They did this on tv in an episode of "Junkyard Wars." And the one team had this exact same problem.And they puttered along on water.It has all to do with surface area.The more surface area that touches the water creates more drag and resistance.The same problem that the military overcame since WW2 and the creation of the "Duck." That concept was to create a boat that had wheels.To do what this man tried to do,to convert a car into a boat is just a reverse concept.He went with dual pontoons so he ended up with a dual pontoon boat.The trick is to get up on top of the water for speed.Even the massive dual pontoon hydroplanes with massive engines need an edge.Blowing down air to create lift is needed to lower the surface area of the pontoons in water.These vehicles can carry phenomenal tons of equipment.He would have done better to have a single pontoon between the wheels shaped like a boats hull which can be lowered down.The rear of it would have to be squared for stability.Because any way you go about it,you can't gain speed unless you get the nose up.A single hydraulic foyer to the bottom of the pontoon hull can do that as speed increases.But it won't matter what this guy does if the gear ratio to the drive train on land is not multiplied by thousands to spin a propellor.Making the engine bigger will not overcome that.But he has a toy that occupied a lot of hours of his free time,not to mention money to.But if his max speed on land is 60 mph to with a 762 horsepower engine, he might as well hang it up like he did.Some people learn the hard way.
RobertRobJan 5th 2011 11:40AM
Hell for 100K U can buy a bad ass car & a bad ass boat with money laft over.
This Dude is a good inventer but way over priced fer shur