We all have that filthy rich uncle (ok, not every one of us) who’s still stuck in the 80s and lives in a million-dollar beach house. Well, YouTuber Danny Duncan is one of those lucky ones. On a recent upload, he checked into his uncle’s $30 million mansion with his band of friends and got the chance to ride …err sorry, drive an amphibious $250,000 car.
We’ll have to give props to James Bond films for inspiring modern automotive technology, as some of his action-packed movies had a hand in recent automotive breakthroughs, including amphibious cars. And if anyone’s going to own a car that drives on the water, in real life, they definitely come from Florida.
Duncan’s uncle, real estate tycoon Ben Mallah, invited him to his $30 million mansion in Clearwater Beach, Florida. Duncan had just struck gold after winning a bid on a storage unit auction, and as he was visiting a $30 million house on a two-and-a-half acre lot on a private beach, he might as well take a tour.
His uncle was more than generous to take him around the mansion that features a bowling alley, two-story paneled library, trophy room (with a classic Chevy SS-designed pool table), and a wine cellar. In 2019, this gulf-front mansion was rated the most expensive house in Tampa Bay by Tampa Bay Times.
A million-dollar house mansion tour doesn’t suffice without a car park tour. Duncan and his friends got to take out some of his uncle's toys, including a Rewaco RF1 LT, Rolls Royce, and the highlight of the visit, a WaterCar Panther.
The amphibious car, obviously inspired by the Jeep Wrangler, drives on land, and doubles as a boat. The WaterCar is an ingenious creation of engineer Dave March, who founded the WaterCar company in 1999, and you can experience it on the go in the video below.
Humphrey is a car enthusiast whose love and passion for automobiles extended into collecting, writing, driving, and working on cars. He got his passion for cars from his Dad, who spent thousands of hours working on his old junky 1970 E20 Toyota Corolla. Years later, he would end up doing the same with a series of lemons he’s owned throughout his adult life. Full profile
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