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Insane amphibious car, the Scamander

submitted by spoco2

1 decade 2 years 5 months 1 week ago

Peter Wheeler, former owner of TVR sport cars (he died in 2009), had a few vehicle projects he like to work on.

This crazy vehicle, looking like something out of Bladerunner, was the one he was working on when he died.

Evo Magazine's Editorial Director Harry Metcalfe takes it for a drive on the property Peter used to own... and into some water!

(It becomes a boat around the 11:45 mark)

7 Comments

That is insanely cool. Would've loved to see him just completely open it up on the water though.

That's probably about as fast as it will go in the water. It's not a nice boat shape, and with the wheels sticking out like that it's going to have a very limited top speed in the water.

>> ^Shepppard:

That is insanely cool. Would've loved to see him just completely open it up on the water though.

It is pretty big, doesn't get on a plain, only only has a single relatively small impeller...I think that was all out!

What is with man's incessant need to create a road vehicle capable of going in water?

You'd think they would engineer a mechanism to disengage and lock the prop when on the road, and maybe kill some of those crazy noises. It sounded like the engine was crying.

*promote

Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Sunday, June 17th, 2012 11:45pm PDT - promote requested by MycroftHomlz.

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