From the Jalopnik site:My dream of scoring a cherry Simca Vedette with Ford Cammer 427 power has been brushed aside. Obliterated, actually. All it took was one glance at this nicely restored '63 Amphicar on eBay. With an Amphicar, you drive to the beach... and then keep going into the water! Hot damn! Of course, there's the somewhat troubling issue of that $45,000 high bid, with reserve not yet met. Hmm, what's a kidney worth?
Then there's this unusual 4-wheel drive vehicle, not your everyday beater for the usual commute through the suburbs:
From the Jalopnik site:We've all seen plenty of hyper-redneck 4x4 conversions, in which some overall-wearing gentlemen from Butcher Holler (or Fontana) plop a car body on a truck chassis and roar off to the nearest mudhole and/or rock formation. Brian Roth's 4x4 Volvo, on the other hand, is all about the science; Roth wanted a wagon that could negotiate his steep driveway during Sierra Nevada winters and he wanted it cheap and reliable. So he took a GM 3.8 V6/700R4 combo, a Dana 30 front axle out of a Cherokee, and some impressive fabrication skills and cooked up this sensible 4x4 '75 Volvo 245 (to add to a stable that boasts a turbo Ford 2.3-motivated 914, a 4x4 Mercedes 300TD, and a 4x4 '74 Civic).
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