The 70s: where you could bolt a plane onto a Pinto and nobody said 'maybe not.'
The time two guys bolted a Ford Pinto to a Cessna and called it a flying car
In 1971, two former Northrop engineers created the AVE Mizar by attaching a Cessna Skymaster's rear section—wings and twin tail booms—to a Ford Pinto. The flying car never entered production, but its legend as one of history's most absurd automotive-aviation hybrids lives on.
Source: The time two guys bolted a Ford Pinto to a Cessna and called it a flying car — BoingBoing
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