PINTO CAR CLUB of AMERICA
Shiny is Good! => General Pinto Talk => Topic started by: AndrewG on October 27, 2014, 10:03:39 AM
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Came across this today.....
"So this seems like a good idea..... A Flying Pinto Car/Plane
The craft, a Mizar Flying Car, was a Ford Pinto powered by a 300-horsepower Lycoming aircraft engine and using the wings of a Cessna Skymaster bolted to braces on the frame.The craft was also equipped with a car engine to drive on the highway.
Unfortunately, the flying machine had a catastrophic wing failure after takeoff on Sept 11, 1973, crashing and killing both on board.
Yes, the Flying Pinto exploded."
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It was not a wing failure , it was a wing to body strut failure , so the whole mess like any car with no wing attached anymore hits the ground they all may exploade , or burn or etc,
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There was actually a good bit of information about the Mizar project available via the homepage prior to this weekend's site updates - can't find it at the moment. I'm sure it's not lost! I always thought it was sort of strange that the Mizar crash occurred on the third anniversary of the Pinto's debut, which was September 11, 1970. Unusual coincidence.
Dwayne :) [size=78%] [/size]
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Pintony has the only surviving prototype (it never flew). He had it at Knott's a number of years ago. There is information about it at cookieboystoys site. I know most here know this, but I'm assuming the original poster did not.
http://www.cookieboystoys.com/
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Here are the OLD OLD links- working on restoring the article system soon...
http://www.fordpinto.com/archive/mitzar1.htm
http://www.fordpinto.com/archive/mitzar2.htm
http://www.fordpinto.com/archive/mitzar3.htm
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I didn't write the details in the initial post, just copied the text in quotations. Saw it on line and thought it might be interesting. Thanks for the comments.
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Pintony has the only surviving prototype (it never flew). He had it at Knott's a number of years ago. There is information about it at cookieboystoys site. I know most here know this, but I'm assuming the original poster did not.
http://www.cookieboystoys.com/
Pintony was contacted by Beau Boeckmann of Galpin earlier this year and a deal was made... Beau / Galpin purchased the Mizar and has trucked it back to California to be restored and put on display with the rest of the collector cars they have.
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Interesting. I recall a number of years back he sold the green ("Roll'in in my Pinto") car. Then it seemed shortly there after he acquired the Mizar. At the time I assumed the sale was related to the purchase. Maybe not??? Seems kind of sad he is now minus two Pinto's of notoriety.