Re: Google Billionaire Beaten To Market By This Gorgeous 65-Year-Old Flying Car [1/8] - Taylor Aerocar 3.jpg (1/1)

[Mitchell Holman[_9_]]

Miloch > wrote in
:

> https://jalopnik.com/google-billionaire-beaten-to-market-by-this-gorgeo
> us-65-1840211205
>
> It is probably fair to say that the Taylor Aerocar was not a
> particularly good car, nor was it a particularly good plane. Only five
> were ever made, one of which being a prototype. But that’s still more
> than Larry Page’s now-delayed Kitty Hawk project, and you can even buy
> an Aerocar.
>
> That is, you can buy one of the Aerocars. This one is going up for
> sale at Barrett-Jackson at Scottsdale 2020, held in early January.
>
> https://www.barrett-jackson.com/Events/Event/Details/1954-TAYLOR-AEROCA
> R-236076
>
> https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeremybogaisky/2019/12/01/inside-larry-pag
> es-kitty-hawk-returned-deposits-battery-fires-boeing-cora/#6363858b58ab
>
> Price is just “no reserve” but someone appears to have listed a Taylor
> Aerocar for about $1 million (600,000 pounds) a few years back, as the
> New York Daily News reported at the time.
>
> How it drove was a bit funky, as the Hemmings noted in a 2013 profile:
>
> Still primitive by automobile standards of the day, the Aerocar
> featured an air-cooled Lycoming flat-four engine, positioned over the
> rear wheels. A three-speed manual transmission provided drive to the
> front wheels, and this road transmission was simply placed into
> neutral when the Aerocar was in flight mode. Part of the conversion
> process from automobile to airplane involved the fitting of a tail
> cone and propeller assembly, which was driven by a power take-off
> located behind the rear license plate.
>
> And while the market for the car never took off, with its limited top
> speed on the road (60 miles per hour) and complications being a plane
> (everything folded away, which was not exactly a one-person job of
> re-installation) the Taylor Aerocar remains the only thing that
> approaches being an actual flying car. I mean, it’s more of a
> road-legal plane, but how can you be mad at it? Look at this little
> thing! It’s adorable.
>
>


Some of us remember the old Bob Cummings Show.

[Miloch]

In article >, Mitchell Holman
says...
>
>Miloch > wrote in
:
>
>> https://jalopnik.com/google-billionaire-beaten-to-market-by-this-gorgeo
>> us-65-1840211205
>>
>> It is probably fair to say that the Taylor Aerocar was not a
>> particularly good car, nor was it a particularly good plane. Only five
>> were ever made, one of which being a prototype. But that’s still more
>> than Larry Page’s now-delayed Kitty Hawk project, and you can even buy
>> an Aerocar.
>>
>> That is, you can buy one of the Aerocars. This one is going up for
>> sale at Barrett-Jackson at Scottsdale 2020, held in early January.
>>
>> https://www.barrett-jackson.com/Events/Event/Details/1954-TAYLOR-AEROCA
>> R-236076
>>
>> https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeremybogaisky/2019/12/01/inside-larry-pag
>> es-kitty-hawk-returned-deposits-battery-fires-boeing-cora/#6363858b58ab
>>
>> Price is just “no reserve” but someone appears to have listed a Taylor
>> Aerocar for about $1 million (600,000 pounds) a few years back, as the
>> New York Daily News reported at the time.
>>
>> How it drove was a bit funky, as the Hemmings noted in a 2013 profile:
>>
>> Still primitive by automobile standards of the day, the Aerocar
>> featured an air-cooled Lycoming flat-four engine, positioned over the
>> rear wheels. A three-speed manual transmission provided drive to the
>> front wheels, and this road transmission was simply placed into
>> neutral when the Aerocar was in flight mode. Part of the conversion
>> process from automobile to airplane involved the fitting of a tail
>> cone and propeller assembly, which was driven by a power take-off
>> located behind the rear license plate.
>>
>> And while the market for the car never took off, with its limited top
>> speed on the road (60 miles per hour) and complications being a plane
>> (everything folded away, which was not exactly a one-person job of
>> re-installation) the Taylor Aerocar remains the only thing that
>> approaches being an actual flying car. I mean, it’s more of a
>> road-legal plane, but how can you be mad at it? Look at this little
>> thing! It’s adorable.
>>
>>
>
>
> Some of us remember the old Bob Cummings Show.
>

I have snippets of memory of watching him on a B/W TV

Here's something I didn't know....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Cummings

"Drug addiction

"Despite his interest in health, Cummings was a methamphetamine addict from the
mid-1950s until the end of his life. In 1954, while in New York to star in the
Westinghouse Studio One production of Twelve Angry Men, Cummings began receiving
injections from Max Jacobson, the notorious "Dr. Feelgood". His friends Rosemary
Clooney and José Ferrer recommended the doctor to Cummings, who was complaining
of a lack of energy. While Jacobson insisted that his injections contained only
"vitamins, sheep sperm, and monkey gonads", they actually contained a
substantial dose of methamphetamine.

"Cummings continued to use a mixture provided by Jacobson, eventually becoming a
patient of Jacobson's son Thomas, who was based in Los Angeles, and later
injecting himself. The changes in Cummings' personality caused by the euphoria
of the drug and subsequent depression damaged his career and led to an
intervention by his friend, television host Art Linkletter. The intervention was
not successful, and Cummings' drug abuse and subsequent career collapse were
factors in his divorces from his third wife, Mary, and fourth wife, Gina Fong.

"After Jacobson was forced out of business in the 1970s, Cummings developed his
own drug connections based in the Bahamas. Suffering from Parkinson's disease,
he was forced to move into homes for indigent older actors in Hollywood.




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