Hi Was reseaching vehicle history on the web when I came across an interesting fact I did not know. The Amphicar was built by the Quandt group who in 1959 bought controlling interest in BMW. This is still the same to this day. So I guess our Amphicars are cousins of BMW. Bill Fenemore
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Amphi History
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Ed Price
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From: plumgt [mailto:]
Sent: Sunday, March 22, 2009 7:04 PM
To: edprice@cox.net
Subject: [General Amphicar Discussion-t-20369] Amphi History
Hi Was reseaching vehicle history on the web when I came across an
interesting fact I did not know. The Amphicar was built by the Quandt group
who in 1959 bought controlling interest in BMW. This is still the same to
this day. So I guess our Amphicars are cousins of BMW. Bill Fenemore
Well, maybe distant cousins. For instance, a Dodge hemi Charger isn't quite
the cousin of a Maybach. I like to think of an Amphi as more like Doctor
Frankenstein's most successful project, assembled from a collection of late
50's German car parts (a bit of Borgward here, a piece of Benz there, a snip
of Porsche, a dash of VW & some totally original stuff too), with a heart
transplant from the Coventry morgue.
It's alive! I say, it's alive!
Ed Price
El Cajon, CA USA
WB6WSN
61 Rust Guppy
1987 MB 420SEL
From: plumgt [mailto:]
Sent: Sunday, March 22, 2009 7:04 PM
To: edprice@cox.net
Subject: [General Amphicar Discussion-t-20369] Amphi History
Hi Was reseaching vehicle history on the web when I came across an
interesting fact I did not know. The Amphicar was built by the Quandt group
who in 1959 bought controlling interest in BMW. This is still the same to
this day. So I guess our Amphicars are cousins of BMW. Bill Fenemore
Well, maybe distant cousins. For instance, a Dodge hemi Charger isn't quite
the cousin of a Maybach. I like to think of an Amphi as more like Doctor
Frankenstein's most successful project, assembled from a collection of late
50's German car parts (a bit of Borgward here, a piece of Benz there, a snip
of Porsche, a dash of VW & some totally original stuff too), with a heart
transplant from the Coventry morgue.
It's alive! I say, it's alive!
Ed Price
El Cajon, CA USA
WB6WSN
61 Rust Guppy
1987 MB 420SEL
