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Usually, when you decide to take a trip around the world with a single car, you’ll have to carefully plan ahead how you’re going to cross major water basins, by either finding a detour or checking for a boat to give you a ride.
Of course, if you are a very good mechanical engineer like Mait Nilson here, you can turn your chosen vehicle into an amphibious vehicle and forget about these complications.
Mait worked on this project for seven years and now his go-everywhere Toyota Land Cruiser is ready. In fact, he already begun his trip Saturday.
“This has been my dream since I was a 10-year-old boy and spent summers at our cottage near lake Peipsi in East Estonia,” Nilson told AFP before his departure in the vehicle dubbed Amphibear.
The Land Cruiser wears a specially built system that turns it into a 10 meter boat, while inside it holds an anchor, a hydraulic pump, portable toilet and even a stove. His contraption can cover 120 nautical miles in a day if the conditions are favorable while on the roads it can reach 110 km/h (68.3 mph).
Mait will cover over 60,000 km (37,282 miles) through Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Italy, France, Spain, Morocco, Mauritania, Senegal, Cape Verde, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Colombia, Panama, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico, USA, Canada and Russia.
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Mait worked on this project for seven years and now his go-everywhere Toyota Land Cruiser is ready. In fact, he already begun his trip Saturday.
“This has been my dream since I was a 10-year-old boy and spent summers at our cottage near lake Peipsi in East Estonia,” Nilson told AFP before his departure in the vehicle dubbed Amphibear.
The Land Cruiser wears a specially built system that turns it into a 10 meter boat, while inside it holds an anchor, a hydraulic pump, portable toilet and even a stove. His contraption can cover 120 nautical miles in a day if the conditions are favorable while on the roads it can reach 110 km/h (68.3 mph).
Mait will cover over 60,000 km (37,282 miles) through Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Italy, France, Spain, Morocco, Mauritania, Senegal, Cape Verde, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Colombia, Panama, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico, USA, Canada and Russia.
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