Solved - NEH 1886: Sea Lion amphibious car

[Carnut]

Identify this vehicle, its builder and motive power correctly for 1 point:

ANYONE FOUND GIVING ANSWERS GLEANED BY USING GOOGLE SEARCH BY IMAGE WILL BE BANNED FOR AN INDEFINITE PERIOD!

[Avalanche]

The car is called the Sea Lion Prototype and is powered by a 13B rotary engine and was designed by Mark Witt.

While I saw the car just recently, the red brick wall immediately gives me the "location"...

[Carnut]

The car is called the Sea Lion Prototype and is powered by a 13B rotary engine and was designed by Mark Witt.

While I saw the car just recently, the red brick wall immediately gives me the "location"...

It is, but you haven't fully said what this vehicle is, just its name.
What does it do that normal cars don't?
Locked for you.

[Avalanche]

It's amphibious. 

[Carnut]

It's amphibious. 

Quite so!

[Otto Puzzell]

The poster and the solver seem to be surfing the same pages, of late. 

[Carnut]

The poster and the solver seem to be surfing the same pages, of late. 

So I've seen.
I mistakenly thought this one might be quite difficult but it seems not.
There's always the chance of a lucky hit with the Internet of course.
As long as there's no monkey business I'm happy!

[Oguerrerob]

Street view

[Avalanche]

The poster and the solver seem to be surfing the same pages, of late. 

Not really. I saw a segment on Discovery Channel about the car, and then was at FJ a few weeks back and had an opportunity to look at the vehicle up close. However, I do look at the FJ website regularly as my employer buys and sells numerous cars there every year...

[geology]

also this one was highlighted on a very well known 'auto-blog' only a couple of weeks ago, pm sent with link

[gte4289]

Please identify this vehicle for a point:

[max2008]

Sea Lion Amphibious car

[gte4289]

Sea Lion Amphibious car

A point for you!

[Carnut]

Merged..

[gte4289]

Merged..

This is not the first time the AP search feature has failed me. I must be doing something wrong.

[Carnut]

I works the opposite way from Google, where the more words you put in the more likely you are to get a match.
Here you need to put in the very minimum of words: for instance if you put in "Sea Lion by Mark Witt" you'll get nothing, as if there's just one letter that doesn't match then it won't come up.  But if you just put "Sea Lion" in it will come up straight away.

[norberthanke]

I' d like to have a proof (see it swimming)

[gte4289]

I' d like to have a proof (see it swimming)

Links are forbidden here, but videos of this thing in the water are numerous and easily found online.

[ChanceHuncha]

I' d like to have a proof (see it swimming)

Here are some photos of this thing in the water, It was even covered on the CNN Youtube Channel.