Oldest Known Flying Car is Up for Sale

Just don't try to fly this 1934 contraption before reading all the fine print

Flying cars may seem to keep receding into that deliciously-imagined future, but this, one of the earliest prototypes, hails from 1934. It is now slated to go up on the auction block in Atlanta this coming weekend, according to Wired's Autopia.

Inventor Frank Skroback designed the 21-foot-long plane that includes six wings with seven-foot spans. As Autopia points out, that sounds a bit lacking when it comes to producing the necessary lift to get the beast off the ground. Maneuvering the plane … car … in the air might also present a problem with the relatively tiny vertical control surfaces.

-- By Jeremy Hsu