After the southside parade and lunch at Champy's, I went back to Main st and wandered around. I ended up in Estate of Confusion- the junk shop at 301 main st. I stayed in there for quite a while and began talking to a guy collecting all sorts of random pieces for a sculpture he was making. It came up I was into VWs and drove in the parade. He talked about how he been considering a VW for while, and that he had driven HIS duck in the parade. Turns out he is the owner of Chattanooga Ducks. We talked about all sorts of VWs and amphibious vehicles. I mentioned the schwimmwagen and he had never heard of it. He then began talking of some hard to pronounce vehicle that VW made that looked like a Thing, was amphibious and 4 wheel drive. I was drawing a blank and he couldn't remember the name. He said he had seen them on ebay and was kinda wanting one to add to the Duck's fleet. We exchanged emails and went our separate ways.
I get an email from him this morning saying it was an Iltis and he had a link to the info on it. Looks pretty cool and a quick samba classified search shows there is one for sale...for $7500! I emailed him the link back with some encouragement to add it to his fleet and our VW community!
