Car Pulls Up Its Wheels To Become a Boat (Jul, 1940)
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Source: Popular Science ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Jul, 1940
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Source: Popular Science ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Jul, 1940
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Car Pulls Up Its Wheels To Become a Boat
RETRACTING its wheels as an airplane does, a proposed amphibian automobile transforms itself into a rakish water craft. The picture above shows a model of the machine which Paul Pankotan, its inventor, plans to build at Miami, Fla. On land, it uses the power of its drive wheels; afloat, that of a propeller at the stern. The body, has the sleek, graceful lines of a motor cruiser.
