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 ...

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At the very last moment, as the car hit the lake, came the reveal: Johnson was driving a 1962 Amphicar, the only mass-produced civilian amphibious automobile. He didn't know what to do with that ...

The versatility of an amphibious vehicle that travels on both land and water had its appeal in the 1960s when the German Quandt Group introduced the Amphicar car/boat, and today, the idea still ...