One fellow, who had an Amphicar freshly restored, was so anxious to show it off to his friends that he took it out on the lake one day forgetting to put in the drain plug. He and his guests were out in the middle of the lake and noticed that the waterline was no longer at the side molding on the car, but approaching the door handles! He tried to make it back to shore but the car sank and they had to swim the rest of the way. Undaunted, the next weekend he hired a barge with a crane and retrieved the Amphicar from the lake bottom and had the car restored again. From then on he always remembered to double-ckeck to ensure the drain plug was in place *before* entering the water!
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