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KB2VXA > TODAY 18.09.15 14:04l 32 Lines 1494 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
BID : 10048_VK6ZRT
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Subj: Re: Sep 17 Amphicar
Path: IW8PGT<CX2SA<ZL2BAU<VE3UIL<N0KFQ<VK6ZRT
Sent: 150918/1142Z @:VK6ZRT.#BUN.#WA.AUS.OC #:10048 [Boyanup] $:10048_VK6ZRT
From: KB2VXA@VK6ZRT.#BUN.#WA.AUS.OC
To : TODAY@WW
THAT one really caught my attention thanks to a personal experience with a
Lagoon Blue Amphicar. A friend and I were driving past a backwayer lagoon
(sic) when we spotted a car in the water and just HAD to investigate. When it
came ashore and after a conversation with the driver he invited us to take a
ride, naturally we jumped at the chance. In the back seat with the top up I
was shall we say just a bit scared looking at water a few inches below the
windows and was thankful we made it back to shore without incident. A few
weeks later that incident happened, the Amphicar sank and he drowned.
Now if you search "Amphicar" on the Internet you'll find pictures of them
both in and out of the water. None in the water ride so low and dangerously,
I figured that from the start, I knew something was wrong with that car. It
was an accident waiting to happen and it did, thankfully not with me in it or
you would not be reading this.
One last thing, I wouldn't call them seaworthy, calm lakeworthy is more like
it. Cross the notoriously dangerous English Channel in one? NOT ON YOUR LIFE!
"New Jersey, the most American of all states. It has everything from
wilderness to the Mafia. All the great things and all the worst,
like Route 22."
Jean Shepherd K2ORS (SK) & WOR radio personality
73 de Warren
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Message timed by NIST: 18-Sep-2015 at 11:41 GMT
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