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  • Chevy Once Designed An Amphibious Jeep Competitor Out Of The Corvair

    Chevy Once Designed An Amphibious Jeep Competitor Out Of The Corvair

    Prior to Ralph Nader’s book panning the Corvair, Unsafe at Any Speed, Chevrolet already had a plan to help make Corvairs unsafe, by placing them in contexts where they’d be shot at: war. Yes, in 1963, GM came up with a remarkable loosely Corvair-based amphibious military vehicle called the TUFI, for Truck Utility Floatable Independent.…