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• mkk41 Posts: 1,932 Senior Member

  March 2012 #2

  We should have declared war on France for sending Renaults to these shores!

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• Slanteyedshootist Posts: 3,947 Senior Member

  March 2012 #3

  A neighbor of ours had an SSR. It was hard not to bust out laughing everytime he drove by. It did kinda match his combover though.

  The answer to 1984 is 1776

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• Bigslug Posts: 9,877 Senior Member

  March 2012 #4

  The Smart Car made the "Dumbest Vehicles" list. Maybe there is justice in the world. If they had those things in medieval times, they'd have been filled with Greek fire and launched from trebuchets over castle walls (Which is something I've wanted to do since the first time I saw one).

  WWJMBD?
  
  "Nothing is safe from stupid." - Zee

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• roadking Posts: 3,056 Senior Member

  March 2012 #5

  Very saddened that the Amphicar made the list...I've been looking for one for years.
  
  Matt

  Support your local Scouts!

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• mkk41 Posts: 1,932 Senior Member

  March 2012 #6

  I couldn't believe what one of those things brought on the Barrett-Jackson auction. Over $100G.

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• roadking Posts: 3,056 Senior Member

  March 2012 #7

  Had a chance at a basket case for the bargain basement price of $25k...driveline was a seperate sale! Scary.
  
  Matt

  Support your local Scouts!

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• Tugar Posts: 2,480 Senior Member

  March 2012 #8

  roadking wrote: »

  Very saddened that the Amphicar made the list...I've been looking for one for years.
  
  Matt

  
  Get a Schwimmwagen. Supposedly there is someone making tubs that owned 7 schwimmwagens. Then instead of getting an original drive unit, I'd probably locate a sealed electric motor and use that instead. VW built so many of these in the day, they had to start adding nav lights. Below are two sites that have info and maybe parts.
  
  http://www.kooblekar.com/schwimmwagen
  
  http://schwimmwagenreplica.com/index.html
  
  

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9ogxk4mww8

  Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
  Winston Churchill

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• Tessimm Posts: 1 New Member

  March 2012 #9

  Oh, that's Great SIR !!

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• Bigslug Posts: 9,877 Senior Member

  March 2012 #10

  roadking wrote: »

  Very saddened that the Amphicar made the list...I've been looking for one for years.
  
  Matt

  
  I think you can get a less leaky and more reliable variant from some of these folks: http://www.floatingcubans.com/

  WWJMBD?
  
  "Nothing is safe from stupid." - Zee

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• Airedale Posts: 624 Senior Member

  March 2012 #11

  Forget the forigners.
  How about the GM cars of the past that featured gas engines converted to diesel.
  I could have made a fortune selling head gaskets.

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• mkk41 Posts: 1,932 Senior Member

  March 2012 #12

  Bigslug wrote: »

  I think you can get a less leaky and more reliable variant from some of these folks: http://www.floatingcubans.com/

  
  Heck , with that kinda ingenuity , let them stay!

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• Big Chief Posts: 32,995 Senior Member

  April 2012 #13

  mkk41 wrote: »

  We should have declared war on France for sending Renaults to these shores!

  
  I guess beauty is in the eye of the beer-holder...er key holder in this case. Man do the French make anything aesthetically pleasing to the eye? Their guns and tanks are ugly too!

  It's only true if it's on this forum where opinions are facts and facts are opinions
  Words of wisdom from Big Chief: Flush twice, it's a long way to the Mess Hall
  I'd rather have my sister work in a whorehouse than own another Taurus!

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