Carping at the Amphicar is easy. Half car, half boat, critics say it’s neither fish nor fowl, all at sea on land and out of its depth in water. But for all that the 1960s car-boat curio hailed in the American press as ‘a vehicle that promised to revolutionise drowning’ remains the most successful civilian amphibious vehicle ever made.
The Amphicar 770 was the brainchild of German engineer
