Date:         Wed, 03 Apr 1996 09:06:00 -0800 (PST)
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         "Maher, Steve (SD-MS)" <SMAHER@gi.com>
Subject:      RE: Re:April HMN adds


>>Amphibious four wheel drive (and propeller driven in water) Kubelwagen
>>derivative.
>>
>>Darned cool.
>>>
>>> Vot ischt dis "Schwimmwagen"?
>
>Talked with a Schwimmer driver once, old WWII German guy living in a
>splittie bus in the Spanish Pyrenees Mtns.  He said they were terrifying to 

>'drive' in the ocean, he had been in Greece in the war.  Wave would rush
>towards the Schwim., tower overhead, and at the last second the vehicle
>would bob up the face of the wave then surf/plow down the backside.  Said 
it
>scared him everytime he went in the water.  Probably great in lakes/rivers

There are a lot of actual boats that aren't safe in large waves. I'd NEVER
take any sort of "Amphibious" vehicle into such, or even into rivers with
any flow rate to them.

Doesn't the Bradley Fighting Vehicle have a reputation, if you drive too
quickly down a riverbank into the water, that they just keep right on
going down?

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