The 1966 Amphicar 770
Posted on 09/15/2017 9:14:09 PM PDT by Army Air Corps
Calling all motorheads: what is the weirdest, most oddball car, truck, or van that you have ever driven? The "weirdness" can be anything from exterior design, to mechanical features, to the interior. Have at it, FRiends.
I can also feel my Irish Wolfhound’s head on my shoulder and my mother’s hand in mine. I love having tactile memory.
Ah, but were they weird? :-)
>>An original Morgan
Ok. VERY impressed.
Indeed. That single spoke makes for some double takes.
it’s not that bad- even when i was getting 60- only about 4 or 5 or so would really floor me per year- the rest were tolerable and wouldn’t cause me to miss activities like the 4 or so would-
It’s just amazing to me how something so small- about the size of a pencil dot really- can floor a person- (some folks get really large stones that lodge and have to be broken up with some type of waves- sonic maybe? some have to be surgically removed- thankfully I’ve never had that happen- the small ones are bad enough- The bad ones will make me black right out from the pain briefly- I don’t even want to think about what kind of pain larger ones must cause-
Hated the mushroom pedal. Squish. Yech.
And people say toddlers can’t drive, eh?
The elderly (probably now deceased) Wehrmacht veteran owner told me that the tricycle arrangement was cheaper to build and therefore necessary in the immediate post-war economy.
I forget which former wartime aircraft concern was responsible for a significant part of the drivetrain...
It was an English car, so guess it makes sense that things were backwards - kind of like driving in U.K.
Also - it is spelled “Minx,” not “Mynx.”
Still, I’m impressed by your courage.
Do they at least give you Fentanyl?
It’s what it is, there’s not much derivative about it. Once you get over the shock it’s actually beautiful but doesn’t bear much resemblance to what most Americans considered “car” at the time. Likely why they didn’t sell enough of them here to remain in the market, which is a pity. I like variety and I don’t mind weird if it’s well-done as far as aesthetics and function, I own a Subaru turbo now, the last bastion of weird in cars for sale in North America with the demise of SAAB.
Yes! Messerschmitt powered that goofy little truck.
The Volvo, most definitely. Most numb car ever, with a steering wheel the size of a wagon wheel. Very odd how a car could be designed to completely remove any feel for driving the thing, almost to punish you for having a car. Was about the time I heard the expression:
"Volvo, the car for people that hate cars"
I was just embarrassed to drive a two-tone color Datsun. Was like it was designed for disco folks. Made me feel very weird driving it.
No air bags!!!!
Saw a transparent Volkswagon in Redondo Beach in 1969. Boyfriend had a Checker car, not cab. Huge backseat. Horrible to drive. Couldn’t feel the road at all.
Reliant Robins had skid plates for when they would tip over in turns.
Single wheel up front.
Last few years I’ve been seeing motor-tricycles with the single drive wheel in the rear.
A transparent VW? I gotta hear this.
There was a white wrought iron VW Beetle in Juarez, Mexico back in the times when it was safe to go over there for the day.
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