Re: Re: HOW MANY AMPHICARS ARE STILL AROUND???
Hi,
In the Netherlands we have ? 25 amphicars, 12 can swim , in germany i think
? 40 ,belgian 4 , other countries ? 10 .
Total production ? 3700 ww.
Peter Verhoeven 65 white
----- Original Message -----
From: "jfriese" <jfriese@mindspring.com>
To: <amphicar-lovers@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 7:35 AM
Subject: [amphicar-lovers] Re: HOW MANY AMPHICARS ARE STILL AROUND???
> Probably nobody knows how many Amphicars are left but Hugh would be
> the best source for how many are still floating. It would be hard to
> keep one floating for too long without finding Hugh and his NOS parts.
> During just the past year, I must have seen over half a dozen rust
> buckets being restored. Just last week I saw one that's almost
> totally done and the owner just found another rust bucket to work on
> when he's through detailing the first one. These cars are still
> coming out from behind the barn.
> I think Hugh said that about 4300 cars were made, in total, and about
> 3700 came to the U.S.
>
> John Friese
> White 67 (CA IFLOAT2)
> Red 67
>
>
> --- In amphicar-lovers@y..., "a_colo_native" <minnow@a...> wrote:
> > > 1. How many Amphicars do we think are still left in the world?
> > > 2. Of those left, how many are estimated to still be waterworthy?
> > >
> > > I know this subject has been brought up in the past, but now that
> > > Spring is here again, I would like to be as accurate as possible
> in
> > > what I tell the curious public who ask when I am out on the lakes.
> >
> > I have heard quite a myriad of numbers from <90 (more than that @
> > Celina) to ~4000 (they didn't make that many!) I would be surprised
> > if there were >600 in total (maybe <200 sea worthy at the most?),
> > including the unknown ones. JMNSO
> >
> > I am not sure that anyone can give more than an educated opinion.
> One
> > time I was ging to investigate how many were registered in the USA
> > but the costs were prohibitive.
> >
> > John Bevins
> >
> > PS - The Amphicar Extraordinaire will no longer be topless tomorrow!
>
>
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