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The time two guys bolted a Ford Pinto to a Cessna and called it a flying car

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In 1971 two Northrop-trained engineers in Van Nuys set out to build a flying car called the AVE Mizar, and the design was about as literal as it sounds: they bolted the back half of a Cessna Skymaster — wings, twin tail booms, and a propeller — onto a Ford Pinto. — Read the rest The post The time two guys bolted a Ford Pinto to a Cessna and called it a flying car appeared first on Boing Boing.
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