Craig Parada
Craig Parada
This booklet appears to be for sales staff. It shows the same (red?) car shown in all the images, so they probably hadn't put too many together yet. There are also some peculiarities of what must be an early production or pre-production model - like the radiator mounted where the battery resides on every other Amphicar.
http://lov2xlr8.no/brochures/others6/amphi/amphi.html
The real fun part is that the booklet contains the most outrageous exaggerations of Amphicar performance I've ever read. If potential buyers expected this, it may not have been IWK that sank the project! (Yes, that address is on Madison Avenue - the K Street of that era.)
Z.b.: "On the highway, it accelerates from a standing start to an honest 90-miles-per hour effortlessly. It cruises a steady 75 m.p.h. so smoothly you can eat up the miles from sunrise to sunset and arrive relaxed and refreshed. All this, in four-passenger comfort, too!"
http://lov2xlr8.no/brochures/others6/amphi/amphi.html
The real fun part is that the booklet contains the most outrageous exaggerations of Amphicar performance I've ever read. If potential buyers expected this, it may not have been IWK that sank the project! (Yes, that address is on Madison Avenue - the K Street of that era.)
Z.b.: "On the highway, it accelerates from a standing start to an honest 90-miles-per hour effortlessly. It cruises a steady 75 m.p.h. so smoothly you can eat up the miles from sunrise to sunset and arrive relaxed and refreshed. All this, in four-passenger comfort, too!"
