Land and sea
I have seen a lot of odd transportation technology over the decades. That horse and buggy at my grandfathers. Curves with round fenders. My first airplane which was probably a DC3. Ships and trains. But the artist and most memorable was the car that became a boat. I can narrow it down to within a year or two and I remember exactly where it happened. Something about a festival where someone came all the way up from Halifax with their amphibious car. I watched it roll down the bank into the river and then travel slowly across the channel and then come out the other side intact. This was truly novel. I wonder why the idea never caught on. Probably because people were too set in their ways they had been told that cars were cars and boats were boats and that was all was meant to be but I know more now I wonder if the owner took his vessel out fishing. I wonder did he does off road the way people do now with their jeeps. I wonder if he spent a lot of time washing and waxing the sheet metal. I have never been someone who needed to wash his car all the time, although, I had neighbours who had that inflection. But this little car they could cross the river and keep on going that was special. It was not a home-brew. This had been manufactured I believe in Europe. And I do not know if the vessel came from Europe to North America under its own power. Seems implausible. Locally we have a lot of boats and nobody else ever drives their boat down the road although I have seen many boats on trailers at the opening and closing of the fishing season. Maybe the fishermen need to embrace the idea of an amphibious craft.
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