This next car comes as a tip from Dave in Tampa who writes: The perfect machine for Florida’s crocodile-infested neighborhoods and lakes. From the photos, this looks like a homebuilt (or kit-built) amphibious “swamp buggy” style ATV, basically a small aluminum/steel boat hull with 4 driven wheels bolted to it, rather than a factory Amphicar […]
This next listing isn’t just a car, it is a collection of WTFs that defines any labels. Let’s start with the simple. The make unidentifiable BoatCar. According to the seller, it “was design to drive 65mph into the water.” I think he forgot the word “once” at the end of that sentence. Once at 65mph […]
We posted a Dutton the other day…but it was from the early days when Dutton built kit cars and before it was sued by Ford for using the Sierra name…and this next car dates from a time when Dutton stopped making street cars (after a run of almost 8000 kit cars…not bad for a botique […]
Sometimes I think there is something wrong with me. I live in a city, a big concrete jungle. The nearest open space is 50 miles (and 4 hours on a Friday afternoon) due east from my home. Parking vehicles on the street has almost been outlawed in its entirety and forget owning a plot of […]
Combining things into a bi-cultural fusion is all the rage these days. You can hardly take a drunk walk through any major downtown without stumbling into an Asian-Euro fusion restaurant featuring some ill-conceived melange of Swedish meatballs and Vietnamese soup, all served on a open pit BBQ. Why not bring this fusion concept into the […]
We get some good email to the Daily Turismo tips account (I’m talking about the random folks asking in ALL CAPS “DEAR DAILYTUORIGMO – HOW DO I BUY YOUR MERCEDES, IS IT STILL FOR SALE, HOW MUCH IS MINIMUM YOU TAKE?”) and then we get some excellent email…such as an email from Mr FixItKirk. FixItKirk […]
Typically when we run out of our DT repository of arcane knowledge of automobiles, we turn to our friend the internet and start searching for more information…but this latest car has us in a bit of an information black hole. Its a 1974 Maki M28 Amphibious Car/Boat, for sale in Dewitt, MI – on ebay […]