A recycled 1990 Toyota Tarago van turned amphibian vessel helped two men cross the Cook Strait in New Zealand’s South Island. Dan Melling and Adam Turnbull, both aeronautic machinists, successfully navigated their boat-van – Roofliss – on a ten-hour trip through the Cook Strait last month.
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"Not many people would have taken a van across the Strait, so until you do, you don't know, do you?” explained Melling, in a media interview.
The Roofliss was built in five months for $2,500 and gets 5 knots (5.8mph or 9.3kph) in the water and 100kph (62mph) on land.
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