Jim Nightingale/Newsday RM via Getty ImagesA reporter test drives an Amphicar in the water with Al Bodkin, the general sales manager for Amphicar Corp. in the back. The Amphicar was a short-lived ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: This is the Amphicar 770. When it launched in Germany in 1961, it was the first mass-produced car that could traverse land and sea. But after just ...