Recent Amphicar Coverage

Jim Golomb, 65, a retired businessman from Northfield, Ill., on his 1964 Amphicar, as told to A.J. Baime.  Life’s more interesting when you drive fun cars. 

There are four Amphicars heading to auction during the rare car silly season in January, the most that have gone to auction at the same time for at least a decade and possibly for much longer. The big question is how much they will fetch.

Meet the Amphicar, a German classic car from the 60's that leads a double life--as a boat.  WSJ's Spencer Jakab reports.  "I brake for fish," says a sticker on the back of Tony Ortokales's car.  It's the sort of thing an avid angler might have on his bumper, but the license plate reading "H20CAR" suggests something else. The propellers below the bumper tell the rest of the story.

What has a frog's face and a shark's body, and can move with ease across land and sea? It's the Amphicar — perhaps the best way to cruise on summer's more pleasant days.

It's been a banner month here in northwestern Ohio for aficionados of small, quirky vehicles from long-defunct manufacturers. Just two short weeks ago, I brought you the latest in diminutive vintage tin from the National Crosley Club Meet in Wauseon, Ohio. This week, I've traveled approximately 85 miles south to meet up with a band of equally nutty and obsessed enthusiasts on the shores of Grand Lake St. Marys in Celina, Ohio.