Amphibious Ocean Going Vehicle - Dobbertin Surface Orbite
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Uploaded by oicurapns on Oct 21, 2010
The Dobbertin Surface Orbiter is a hand built amphibious vehicle built by Rick Dobbertin
The Orbiter was fabricated completely from stainless steel and was designed to circumnavigate the Earth, over land and sea without any type of support vessel.
For nearly three years, Rick was in an unprecedented position to study amphibious craft design having actually lived aboard the Orbiter throughout a 28-country, 38-state adventure dubbed Project Earth-Trek.
During the trip, which covered 30,000 miles on land and 3,000 miles at sea, he encountered everything on land from the smooth, well-kept highways of the United States to the pot-holed, wash-boarded dirt paths in the frontier of Colombia.
While on the water, he encountered every sea condition from the dead-calm waters in the Finger Lakes region of Upstate New York to eighteen-foot seas in the Caribbean's Mona Passage on a crossing from The Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico.
Throughout the trip, Rick also had the advantage of seeing, first hand, the interest generated by the Orbiter. After talking to people in every port, he was struck by the realization of how indispensable a safe, fast, reliable, user friendly amphibian would be and the tremendous worldwide market there is for such a unique craft.
http://www.dobbertinhydrocar.com
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@vintagekid1985 that's probably a kill switch for the engine, and yes i know i'm a dreamkiller :)
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Now i know what i want for christmas!
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0:52 , look at the buttons, one says kill!
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That is so awesome!!!! I want one!
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I saw this years ago in my Car and Driver. Interesting article, and vehicle, Also read some years after that issue that he unfortunately got a divorce, possibly over the machine itself. Yes I want one.
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This machine is awesome, it should be produced and sold in their thousands for the whole world!
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i would love to see the rest of the inside of this thing. what motor is in it?
Hotdoggy13 1 year ago
there is a link at the bottom
oicurapns 1 year ago