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Amphibious RVing for the Masses
Diesel Dave writes "from the this ain't your grandma's amphi-mobile dept: Cool Amphibious Manufacturers International, LLC, is now marketing their
TerraWind line of combination
Motor Coach / Yachts. Thats right, a 42 foot Luxury RV you can take to, or in, the lake! With a not exactly cheap pricetag of $850K+, included is the full rigging of luxury home features: Granite countertops, marble floors, teak cabinetry, tracking satellite dish, and 42" plasma TV. Oh and don't forget the swim deck. If I can get one with an ocean rated hull, machine gun turrets,
and SVO conversion,
I'll have my own portable Sealand.
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A (temporary) mirror of the site is
here to lessen the / . effect."
It's what trailer folk can buy when they win the lotto!
Despite the fact I think the photos look like a hoax, I can't believe that this thing is too stable in water. It would appear to be very long and narrow. Sea sickness is probably a big problem with this one.
Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein
When you want to dump your waste tank just jump in the local lake.
Phisteria are us!
Finally, my parents can evacuate when a hurricane or flood threat is looming. I'm buying my parents this as soon as I make $850,000 so they can cruise to safety while making cheddar cheese omelettes and listening to Willie Nelson.
What the hell is happening to slashdot??
When $850K+ became "for the masses," I'll never know...
when you can do DIY!
This thing is an old milk truck trailer and has set out to go around the world.
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
And for quick trips to the shore and scouting, it comes with a dinghy made out of a Fiat convertable. :)
anyone else picture Bill Murray and Harold Ramis driving this in Czechoslovakia?
"Come on, it's Czechoslovakia. We zip in, we pick 'em up, we zip right out again. We're not going to Moscow. It's Czechoslovakia, it's like going into Wisconsin."
"Well, I got the sh** kicked out of me in Wisconsin once. Forget it. "
"Prices from the $850,000's"
Please to note the 'from'. Eek!
For that price, I'd expect the weapons systems to be included (with ammo). Forget Sealand, I'm thinking more along the lines of Damnation Alley! Ohh, the choice of bumperstickers for one of those babies..."Tailgaters will be shot," "I brake for NOBODY," etc.
The cubans have had those for years;
http://www.vg.no/pub/vgart.hbs?artid=69190 (Norwegian, but the picture should suffice)
CAPS LOCK IS LIKE CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL!
the Shuttle Bike kit.
I have one : it's great fun for much less than $850K, and you can go on the "bridge" without opening a door and sinking the vehicle in the process.
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
[music]Junkyard Wars[/music]
Granite countertops, marble floors, teak cabinetry, tracking satellite dish, and 42" plasma TV?
You youngsters have it so easy these days. Back in my time our cars would only go on land. If we wanted to travel across water we would lash a few logs together with our bare hands. We didn't have no blinkin' plasma TV either, all we had for entertainment was a deck of cards, and we only had 3 suits! Amphibious RV...Jesus Christ...
Mother, do you think they'll like this sig?
I nominate the first group of people to pay $1million+ for one of these and attempt to take it out into water for a Darwin Award, after they dredge for their bodies.
They're using special versions of the Terra-Hydra, http://www.camillc.com/, as tour buses in the Philadelphia area. They take you crusiing on the Delaware river and then drive around town. Pretty cool if you ask me. I don't know if the tour is any good, since I haven't done it, but it's definitely a cool idea.
"the operation timed out when connecting to www.terrawind.com"
"the operation timed out when connecting to www linkscape.net"
kickass, the slashdot effect scales!
Here's some cubans in there amphibian.
M@
Krispy Cream is people
It certainly was temporary.
~Blake
I'll be impressed when I can have my Winnebago fly around in space and get chased by a giant transforming vacuum... at ludicrous speed!
Some guy travelled around the world in a GPA, which is basically an amphibious World War II jeep. He named his vehicle "Half-Safe."
He wrote a book about it called "The Other Half of Half-Safe."
I wonder how the price of these things compares to a comperably equiped Featherlite coach?? The amenities sound almost exactly like what the Featherlite guy was rattling off on one of those Discovery channel bike week shows. Also anyone interested in extreme vehicles should check out Mercedes Unimogs, those things can do almost everything, from fire engines to light cranes, to railroad repair vehicles (those are equiped with a boom for unloading ties and steel wheels to travel down the tracks!). Also I have to throw in my favorite story that combines geekdom, survivalism, anti-government mentality, and extreme vehicles, The Consultant
There are 4 boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use in that order. Starting now.
I think it's more of a vehicle for retired pirates.... an ARRR!-V, if you will.
Tweet, tweet.
The DSO looks a lot safer and cooler than that TerraWind (aka the combi from the Wild Thornberrys).
"And a voice was screaming: 'Holy Jesus! What are these goddamn animals?'" - HST
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Hmmmm. Now where have I heard that before?
I love the smell of Karma in the morning
Really, I haven't been able to figure out what you americans mean with those two letters! I know how it looks but...