Bid For The Oldest "Flying Car" This Weekend [Cars]
This isn’t just any old rusty antique of a car. It’s the oldest-dated flying car, and comes with the blueprints, 1921 patent and documents charting inventor Frank Skroback’s creation. Here’s the catch though: it doesn’t fly. More »
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I think they made a word for this, oh yea, Airplane.
GrayStockton
@aec007: Is that a Toyota?
budice4ever
Here’s a REAL flying car…
I’m sure if you were to bid on it, you could pick up the pieces somewhere in a crater out in the desert….
aec007
ahhhh….behold the fabled boatcarplane.
Meetcleaver
I wish it could fly. It’s beautifull!
717
So, bi-planes have two wings, and this has six…
It’s the sex-plane. I want it.
Potentaint
@BasicBlack: Unless you’ve got some pixie dust, happy thoughts aren’t getting this thing off the ground.
lunchbox
Flying Car:
steveh_2o
A flying car that doesn’t fly? Did I miss something here?
kagehyo6
Lots of flying car stuff this week
Rejexted
“Flying car” = world’s ugliest airplane.
Kaiser-Machead
Plane? It doesn’t fly. Car? It appears to not have any features of a car at all, from what I can see, other than he shortened the wings enough to fit in a lane (thus ensuring that it wouldn’t fly).
This thing is the man-bear-pig of auto aviation.
AreWeThereYeti
History has shown that “it doesn’t fly” is a primary engineering requirement of a flying car.
beercheck
@lunchbox: Well, with that altitude, it never will.
BasicBlack
So that explains why “flying car” is in “air quotes.”
Jules Winfield
If it doesn’t fly, I think it’s just a car with wings.
lunchbox
inevitable
randomguy26
@Nathan Obbards: yo dawg, i heard you liek mudkip?
(i know it’s an old meme, it just fitted)
billyfranks
I have a 1994 Ford Ranger Flying truck that doesn’t fly either. Anyone interested on bidding on it, call me.
If ” it doesn’t fly “, is it still considered a flying car?
TerryinSt.Paul
At what point is a flying car just a plane? Isn’t the point of flying cars the fact that they look and function like cars? (And that they fly?–which this one doesn’t.)
Anybody can drive an airplane on the highway and call it a flying car. Well, not anybody.
whitino
Yo dawg, I heard you like wings on your car, so we put wings on your wings so you can drive while you fly.
Nathan Obbards