A new Walt Disney World restaurant is offering Amphicar rides. For those unaware of the Amphicar, it was manufactured between 1961 and 1968 and was a bimodal vehicle that offered the capability of ...

The automotive industry was rather crazy in the ‘50s and ‘60s, and the cars of that era explain why we can make this statement today. While “regular” automobiles were also built during those times, ...

Back in the ‘60s, the idea of having a car that could just as easily double as a boat was an oddly appealing one. So much so that Hans Trippel created the Amphicar, some 4,000 of which were made in ...

What is it? Is it a car? Is it a boat? The answer is it’s a novelty. Yes, it is a car and a boat. But it’s neither a very good car nor a very good boat. The Amphicar was built in Germany from 1961 to ...

Back in the mid-1960s, a company out of West Germany built the Amphicar Model 770. The curiously-named ‘car’ was an amphibious vehicle and while it never proved exceptionally popular (just 3,878 units ...

Every so often, a car comes along that looks like it was dreamed up after one too many late nights in the garage. The 1960s were full of bold experiments that transformed car culture. However, few ...

And back on planet Earth, you may have heard big, older model American cars referred to as `land yachts,' but what would you call a car that really is a boat? Well, as it turns out, you'd call it an ...

Joseph has always been interested in cars and automotive history. He can be found driving around town in a rusty police cruiser that he purchased from a city auction. His dream is to one day compete ...

-- Bust out the candles: American success story, visionary futurist and import/export whiz John DeLorean was born this day in 1925. Everyone knows about his battle to launch the DeLorean Motor Company ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: This is the Amphicar 770. When it launched in Germany in 1961, it was the first mass-produced car that could traverse land and sea. But after just ...

Two years ago, I visited Disney Springs, an outdoor shopping complex in Orlando, Florida, with my family. While my husband and son might have been excited about the Ghirardelli chocolate shop or the ...