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

Boing Boing reports that in nineteen seventy-one, two engineers trained at Northrop in Van Nuys created the AVE Mizar. They took a Ford Pinto and bolted the back half of a Cessna Skymaster to it, complete with wings, twin tail booms, and propeller. It represented the flying car concept at its most literal.

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