Home-Built Amphibian Frog-Truck Is Kermit’s Favorite Vehicle

PopSci get their hands on this 2.5 - long ton abode - work up frogtruck , a 260 - HP treaded monster which is the first - ever amphibian fomite that can fully retract its driveway assembly . The course for the perfect amphibian motortruck was as hard as the ones this thing can now journey through at 30 miles per hour : the mud flatbed , bog , ice battleground , nose candy slopes , rivers and lakes of the Alaskan tundra .

Built by 77 - yr - oldStan Hewitt , the truck took two years and $ 130,000 to make . It was n’t the first one he did . Before this model , Hewitt construct another hybrid . That one used 10 wheel instead of the 1 - substructure - wide treads of the current model , and could only move around at 10 miles per hour on res publica and 7 mph on water .

It was n’t until 2004 when he decided to redesign it and go for the full - retractable rubber - stride design , powered by a Chevy Trailblazer engine that also take to the woods the outboard propeller . And then , he painted it green . Which , you have a go at it , it is what ready it a winner for me . [ Pop Sci ]