Is there such a thing as a road-legal hovercraft?

i am under the impression that Mudflat rescue hovercraft, are often fitted with wheels, due to the dificulty of keeping the damn thing still when trying to pick someone up off the mud.
that would greatly help with control on the road i guess.

massive ones do a groovey trick here they deflate next to the striken party, who can then roll onto the skirt, which then reinflates and lifts them up level with the body work

hover crafts rock

I remember seeing a LandRover with hovercraft abilities. Long, long time ago. Sure I didn’t dream it. 🙂

Edit due to the wonders of Google:

but on the same page is this:

I want!
Video

I can only offer this thread admiration, i am truly stumped.
Bravo.

Apparently here is the Landy Hovercraft:
http://www.landroveraddict.co.uk/videos/LandRover02.wmv

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=1337

I would pay good money to be in the room when you take it in for its MOT.

I’m still intreuged (sp?) by the idea of a hover-through fast food takeaway. Would a double story one work? Could require more hover power than the hovercraft I drove could muster. Hope the driver above keeps up his concentration!

I’d pay money to watch the first time you try to reverse parallel it in a town center!

Could be surprisingly easy to park, I’m sure crabbing one can’t be the difficult.

the driving test would have to be very hard – you would need a shed load of skill to make sure you can corner and stop the thing – no tyres gripping the road to help you out.

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I want one of those!

Holy Thread Resurrection, Batman! Damn, I’d totally forgotten this thread, good to see it back. I SO want that Landy with the huge sneakers on, just the thing for driving around on Burnham and Brean beaches, and laughing at the stupid grockles who get stuck in the mud with their swanky four-by’s.

I’ll see your fat-tyre Landy and raise you this brilliant thing… Was parked for years at the landy dealer at Lix Toll but apparently got exported to South Africa to be put back into use, which is pretty cool.

I want to die riding that hoverbike

As I said some time ago the world would be a far better place if we used hovercraft more.

Can’t see your pic Northwind, could you repost?
Just got the little red X

I was once given a hovercraft down the pub, it needed completely rebuilding, but I had all the plans. Never got round to it unfortunately, and had to get rid when we moved.

I was once given a hovercraft down the pub

Don’t you know how dangerous this is?!

Hmm, don’t know what’s happened to my pic, here’s someone else’s

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