{"id":473777,"date":"2010-03-25T18:26:02","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T22:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/oldest-known-flying-car-auctioned\/14567\/"},"modified":"2010-03-25T18:26:02","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T22:26:02","slug":"first-flying-car-goes-under-the-hammer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/473777","title":{"rendered":"First flying car goes under the hammer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/pictures\/hero\/skroback-flying-car-ii-1.jpg\" alt=\"There is no known documentation that the car ever flew  Credit: Red Baron Antiques\"><\/p>\n<p>Putting aside <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/first-commercially-available-jetpack\/14423\/\" >jet packs<\/a>, the other science fiction dream to perpetually elude us is the flying car. Gizmag is littered with stories on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/tag\/flying+car\" >flying car inventions<\/a> and yet my Toyota Camry is mournfully clipped, fused to the road while my dreams of zooming to work in the 21st century remain unrealized. But this is not a story about a new-fangled invention, this is a story about the pioneering forerunner to these zippy young upstarts; the ancient grandfather of flying automobiles, Frank Skroback&#8217;s Flying Car, which recently went to auction in Atlanta, Georgia. ..<\/p>\n<p><b>Tags:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/tag\/antiques\/\" rel=\"tag\">Antiques<\/a>,<br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/tag\/aviation\/\" rel=\"tag\">Aviation<\/a>,<br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/tag\/flying-car\/\" rel=\"tag\">Flying Car<\/a>,<br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/tag\/worlds+first\/\" rel=\"tag\">World&#8217;s First<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Related Articles:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/go\/3479\/\">Honda survey reveals what children want from cars<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/flying-cam-iii-e-sarah\/12821\/\">Flying-cam goes electric<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/historic-moller-flying-car-prototype-up-for-sale\/10110\/\">Historic Moller flying car prototype up for sale<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/the-autovolantor-flying-car\/9978\/\">The autovolantor Flying Car<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/flying-taxi-inventor-dies\/12521\/\">Flying taxi inventor dies in test crash<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/go\/1444\/\">NASA&#8217;s Helios prototype spans new heights<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/utICj7Jmq16WZ1t-8xIW1Cw9gJs\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/utICj7Jmq16WZ1t-8xIW1Cw9gJs\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/utICj7Jmq16WZ1t-8xIW1Cw9gJs\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/utICj7Jmq16WZ1t-8xIW1Cw9gJs\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/GizmagEmergingTechnologyMagazine?a=GnttTrdFDKQ:4-SNB9rjuHM:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/GizmagEmergingTechnologyMagazine?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/GizmagEmergingTechnologyMagazine?a=GnttTrdFDKQ:4-SNB9rjuHM:H0mrP-F8Qgo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/GizmagEmergingTechnologyMagazine?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/GizmagEmergingTechnologyMagazine?a=GnttTrdFDKQ:4-SNB9rjuHM:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/GizmagEmergingTechnologyMagazine?i=GnttTrdFDKQ:4-SNB9rjuHM:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/GizmagEmergingTechnologyMagazine?a=GnttTrdFDKQ:4-SNB9rjuHM:wF9xT3WuBAs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/GizmagEmergingTechnologyMagazine?i=GnttTrdFDKQ:4-SNB9rjuHM:wF9xT3WuBAs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/GizmagEmergingTechnologyMagazine?a=GnttTrdFDKQ:4-SNB9rjuHM:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/GizmagEmergingTechnologyMagazine?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GizmagEmergingTechnologyMagazine\/~4\/GnttTrdFDKQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Putting aside jet packs, the other science fiction dream to perpetually elude us is the flying car. Gizmag is littered with stories on flying car inventions and yet my Toyota Camry is mournfully clipped, fused to the road while my dreams of zooming to work in the 21st century remain unrealized. 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