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RINSPEED REVEALED; What's next from the wildly creative mind of Frank Rinderknecht? Only he knows.(News)
Byline: BOB GRITZINGER
When Frank Rinderknecht headed home to Zurich after a short postgraduate sojourn in Southern California in the 1970s, tucked among the souvenirs in his luggage was a complete sunroof. When he got back to Switzerland, Rinderknecht carved a hole into the roof of his Fiat 128 and installed the sunroof, and the rest, as they say, is history.
Sunroofs were virtually unheard of in Europe at that time, so Rinderknecht bought a few more and installed them in his friends' cars. By 1977, his company, Rinspeed Inc., was importing and selling thousands of sunroofs in Europe, while also doing vehicle conversions for handicapped drivers.
Three decades, a multitude of automotive business ventures and 14 one-off specialty cars later (all driveable and street-legal), Rinderknecht unveiled his latest burst of creativity at the 2008 Geneva motor show, in the form of the Rinspeed sQuba "diving'' car. Sure, the folks who do James Bond movies can do this stuff through the wonders of special effects, but Rinderknecht's car really swims-in water as deep as 33 feet. The two-seat open-air car also will drive on dry land, but what's the fun in that?
Not bad for ...
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