26th Amphibious Car Meet in Switzerland

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Owners of more than 50 amphibious vehicles brought their World War 2-era military transporters, jeeps and vintage-style cars to Switzerland‚ St Blaise for their annual European gathering. Fitted with colourful sun umbrellas and decorated with flags, what looked like a motley crew of vehicles carrying families including babies and dogs drove off the port and glided smoothly into the water, before moving across Lake Neuchatel.

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For those who are not aware, an amphibious vehicle is one that can be driven on both as well as in water, just like an amphibian.

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Briton Paul Foley was driving an Amphicar, a 1960s German-built cabriolet which was also the only civilian amphibious vehicle to be mass produced, although only 3878 were made. Patrick Amerijckx drove his favorite vehicle the military Dukw truck – 21,147 of which were produced for the US army during the Second World War - and of which an astonishing number are still in use.




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