An invention that isn't dead in the water!

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As soon as the automobile was launched, other inventors tried to create a vehicle that that could both drive on the road and float on the water. Most designs were unsuccessful (in other words: they went to the bottom of the river!). One that did work was ‘La Comète’. After training as a mechanic, Ulysse Texier de la Caillerie founded his own taxi company and opened a garage. He then took over the running of a hotel in Poitiers. In 1928, in the town of Secondigny (Deux Sèvres), he had the idea of building a light vehicle that would be able to travel on land and in water, and intended to offer his design to the army. The five-horsepower Comète was completed in 1932. A certain Colonel de Gaulle showed great interest in the project, but the army did not take it on. Together with the legendary Trippel, La Comète will be part of a special retrospective of amphibious cars during the next Rétromobile in February 2012

STOP PRESS: 10 highly  important cars including the Bugatti 57SC Atlantic, Delahaye V12 Course, Hispano Xenia Dubonnet, thsi year's Pebbel Beach winner the Voisin Aerodyne and more!. Al these come  from The Mullin Automotive Museum in California will be presented at the coming RétroMobile 2012.

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