What's
New on amphicar.net?
Last Updated March 22, 2004
Here is where we announce recent developments on
Amphicar.net. For information on regional Amphicar gatherings and other
get togethers, you might also want to check out the Amphicar Club website's Events
Calendar.
 |
IS AMPHICAR.NET GETTING
A LITTLE "COBWEBBY"?
Don't be fooled by outward appearances! Since
the International Amphicar
Owners Club became truly an elected and Member-run Club in July 2000,
the crew and resources of Amphicar.net has been quietly integrating behind
the scenes into the BIG PICTURE, offering the venue, talent and
resources of Amphicar.net in such a way that funnels lots of
"seamless" collaborative content (like all that new parts and
repair manuals stuff, chat rooms, etc.) that's actually developed and even
hosted on Amphicar.net, but made available via Amphicar.com,
the Club's website. And of course Amphicar.net still continues to
offer absolutely free hosting to Amphi owners for their personal
Amphi-related websites. So don't be fooled if this Amphicar.net
News or the Amphicar.net home port begin to look a little
superficially stale...You know what they say about those "still
waters". |
|
CALIFORNIA HOPS ON
BOARD AMPHICAR.NET! ~ Thanx to "El Cajon" and his
suntanned cohorts, Southern California owners now have a venue for that
"Sun & Sushi" vibe they cast. Check
it out!
|
|
WELCOME ABOARD EAST
COAST AMPHICAR! ~ Famed Amphicar restorer and high speed
water entry maestro Billy Syx joins
the Amphicar.net crew. |
|
SAVE 'OLD CRUSTY' FUND
~ Please chip in for the dramatic rescue of "Old
Crusty" by making a donation. |
|
WELCOME ABOARD DARRELL
GADDY! ~ Check out our newest Amphicar.net crew member's site
right here. |
|
BIG IN JAPAN ~
Mark
& Becky's Amphicar Farm, one helluva fun site proudly
hosted by Amphicar.net, has received a very special acknowledgement in
Japan, the exact details of which are right here in this
screenshot...Ummm...Good luck...: |
(Click to enlarge)
| THE CAP'N SURE HAS BEEN BUSY ~
Amphicar.net's Grand Admiral of fancy HTML coding, Cap'n John
(aka. John Bevins), must have had one hard snowed-in winter up there in the
Rockies. But his cabin feverings are your gain. You can check
out lots of flashy new helpful features on his website by clicking
here. Even more interesting and useful stuff by the Cap'n is
now also found in the 'Members Only' area of the International
Amphicar Owners Club. |
| AND YOU THOUGHT CELINA
WAS A BIG DEAL? ~ Check out this report by the German
Amphicar Club's René Pohl on Amphib
2000, the big web toed motoring gathering in Europe last
Summer. |
| AMSOIL
LUBRICANTS ORDERING ~
Online ordering of AMSOIL products is now available!
Click here to treat your
Amphicar to the very best synthetic lubricants available and help support
Amphicar.net in the process without paying even a penny more. |
| PARTS TIPS NEEDED ~
Just a reminder: if you
know of some helpful parts tip, modification or substitution that has worked
for you, please take a moment to share this knowledge
with other owners by using the Universal
Parts Listing Questionnaire. Anyone who'd prefer to write out
the information by hand and mail it to the Bilgemaster in something we
oldtimers used to call an envelope with little sticky things called stamps
will find a nice little form to print out by clicking right
here. In fact, everyone should keep a few of these
sheets in the garage for when the spirit hits them. |
| EMAIL ADDRESSES ~ Dozens
of Amphicar owners have already got their personalized
"@amphicar.net" email addresses, including davethewave@amphicar.net
and daveseviltwin@amphicar.net.
To request yours, simply contact the Amphicar.net
Bilgemaster with your choice. Owners with special plates
get first dibs on their "handles." No doubt some lucky new
owner of an Amphi requiring "some restoration" will be pleased to
learn that "leaky@amphicar.net" is still available! |
| GERMAN AMPHICAR CLUB ~
Wilkommen am Bord! The German Amphicar Club, Amphicar Club
Berlin e.V., founded in 1967, is now being hosted by Amphicar.net at www.amphicar.net/Germany.
Why not drop on by and say "Ahoi! Ich hab' auch
gewebte Zähe." (Translation: "Ahoy! I too have
webbed toes."). |
| PICTURES FROM GERMANY ~
Ottmar Englert, President of the German Amphicar Club, Amphicar
Club e.V., sent Amphicar.net some very nice photos and scans of the
original German Amphicar Brochure. You can check them out by clicking
here. |
| SPECTACLE POND MEET ~
Thanks to Andrew Bennett,
you'll find a very nice page of thumbnailed pix of an Amphicar gathering in
the Boston area at Spectacle Pond in Leominster, Massachusetts by clicking
here. Although this Meet was announced with only a few days'
notice on the Amphicar-Lovers
Email Digest, it was still a great success, and talk of a followup
is already in the wind. Please contact Charles
Gould if interested. To learn about other upcoming
regional Amphicar get togethers, check out the Club's Events
Calendar. |
Oliver Evans' Orukter Amphibolos
Manufactured in Philidelphia in 1805
According to Cars cars cars cars
/ by S.C.H. Davis (London : Paul Hamlyn Publishers, 1967), [Chapter 1]
"Beginnings" (p. 12): "[...] in 1805 a strange contraption was
actually seen running slowly along a road in Philadelphia, a vehicle with a
steam engine driving not only wheels but a paddle astern, for its crude body was
watertight enough for it to swim as well as run on the road. All of this was due
to Oliver Evans, but his unhappy reward was to be considered NOT QUITE RIGHT
IN THE HEAD. [emphasis mine]"...Surely old Oliver was a kindred soul of
every Amphicar owner..
                    
|
