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Who Needs a Boat?

  • March 19, 2013
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

The Amphicar was the only mass-produced civilian passenger car that could be driven on land or in water. Just under 4,000 were made in the 1960s. President Lyndon B. Johnson liked to play a joke on guests by pretending to accidentally crash his Amphicar into a lake!

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