Amphicat 6x6 Amphibious ATV.mp4

This video was used as a promotional tool for dealers of the Amphicat 6x6 Amphibious ATV when it was being manufactured in the 60's and 70's. The Amphicat was manufactured by Mobility Unlimited in Michigan before it was later purchased by Magna Corporation. This video was originally on reel and was later converted to DVD. Since it was originally film, it of course has no sound but is such a great piece of ATV history that I didn't want to ruin it by adding a soundtrack.

This video shows the Amphicat in many different environments. From driving the six wheeler in snow to playing with the amphibious ATV in a lake, they went out of their way to highlight all of its capabilities and accessories. Available accessories that you see in the video include the dual wheel kit to make it a 12X12, a windshield, tracks and an outboard motor.

One of my favorite parts of the video includes driving the balloon tires over a bed of nails to show how light of a footprint the six wheeler has. They also highlights the light footprint by driving over humans laying on the ground. Do not try that at home. :)

There are two parts to the videos that show the Amphicat on asphalt. One is at the Indianapolis 500. If you are an Indy fan, you will recognize the name on the side of the Amphicat as Clarence Cagle. Clarence was the track superintendent at the track for over 30 years and was accredited with helping to revive the track after World War II. It appears that he was using the Amphicat to get around the track.

The second on-road video was taken at the Product of the Year Parade. If you look carefully, you can see Mobility Unlimited's company car loading up the Amphicats.

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Autos & Vehicles

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• 6x6
• atv
• six
• wheeler
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• attex
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• utv

[bangonx22hot]

i just recently picked up an old amphicat,1968 i think,motor is ceased but everything else seems ok,wondering if anyone out there know the size of the biggest motor ever mounted in an amphicat,i plan on putting a 503 rotax in mine

[Argo6x6and8x8RULE]

@jpswift1 Hey it's 1975 Argo 8x8 2-Stroker... lol And yeeah, they did, all over the place, it sucked! :(

[jpswift1]

@Argo6x6and8x8RULE Polyethylene or HDPE plastic you mean, not polyurethane. The early Attex models had ABS bodies, along with many other early AATVs and they did crack and get brittle unfortunately.

[Argo6x6and8x8RULE]

... and those ABS bodies were HORRIBLE for cracking as it is a very weak plastic in realation to the polyurathane of the Argo bodies, that is why there are so few Amphicats around today, there bodies were weak. There are many older 1970s Argos still around today, because there polyurathane bodies stay flexible over time.

[Argo6x6and8x8RULE]

Though, when the canadain patend was sold to the Amarican Company, the design greatly improved in some aspects, the BeeHoo Amphicat had a better designed transmition and chain boxes than the Amarican Amphicat, but the Amarican Amphicat used proper chain adjusters, the BeeHoo Amphicat used a adjuster bolt type system that slid the axel forward to adjust the chain... this system was terrible. Unlike the Argo which used and still uses polyurathane bodies, the bodies of the Amphicat were ABS...

[Argo6x6and8x8RULE]

You only mention the Amphicat as being probuced in the USA, you should have also mentioned that they started out production in 1968 in Ontario, Canada, made by BeeHoo industries. Ontario Drive and Gear (ODG) that now produces the Argo and the Centaur got the experience with transmition work from making the Amphicat transmition for Amphicat when it was still a Canadian company, that experience later went into the Argo transmition, and then as it is now, the entire Argo AATV.