A station wagon is a type of car that has extra space in the back for carrying things or more people. It's like a regular car but longer and good for families.
Hemi means the engine has a special shape inside that helps it make more power and run better. It's a type of engine used in some fast cars.
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Griswold family Truckster
The Griswold family Truckster is a made-up car from a funny movie about a family going on a road trip. It's a big station wagon that looks a bit silly but is famous in movies.
The Lucid Air is a fancy electric car that can drive a long way without needing to recharge. It has a special feature that lifts the car a little bit off the ground to make the ride feel softer and more comfortable.
The Ford Pinto was a small car made a long time ago that had a problem where it could catch fire if hit from behind. People talk about it because it shows how important car safety is.
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Emily EP36: Should we get this show on the road?
Emily EP36: What, how is Casey Casso doing that? That's bogus.
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Emily EP36: I almost, you Rose EP36: I do blend it with some decaf Rose EP36: Yep. And they believed it. Everybody was like ready to clock out. They're like six minutes in, they're like,
That's where we're at. If you are gonna talk to us about station wagons though, we're talking to you from the future in the
Mm-hmm. I've been trying to put my finger in what I get from your podcast. In addition to constantly learning and gaining knowledge, turns out being part of the right community is critical, whether it is location or nationwide.
And I will say that Portland has a wonderful scene of vanners and motorcycles and car people.
Rose EP36: I would think so. Yeah, I would think so. But anyway, this is, like not necessarily the end of our feel good portion of the show, but we
Emily EP36: Well, we have some other, um, And like the toad doesn't move, the background vibrates and then they're like, they watch it entranced.
Flying car. And by flying car, I mean, this is a Pinto and a Cessna mated together.
Rose EP36: Alex sent me a reel of this and it was like a fifties car uhhuh, somebody elongated in the center and they put it on rails and they would, it was like Hemi powered and they would use it to drive the workers for this mineshaft out into the middle of the fucking desert.
Rose EP36: messed up part is we didn't talk about the Griswold family Truckster, at Emily EP36: Okay. Again, I, I don't know who that is,
Rose EP36: Yeah, there wasn't much more than that. But, um, I think, I mean, am I tripping? Like is there a more iconic station wagon outside the Griswold family? Truckster. The Simpsons wagon, and then again, I think to the next, like I'm basically talking about TV wagons
Rose EP36: and I won't Rose EP36: I just swish it around a little bit. It just comes right out. Just Linsky, Monica Linsky Schon. Molinsky.
Rose EP36: got vodka in the dash? in her, she breaks out that she's listening to it on her way home from work and just like in the glove box. And she shots at traffic. Like it's the seventies.
Emily EP36: Is a Cessna, a US manufactured? Plane.
Rose EP36: See, I think there's a flaw in this whole thing. When I was watching the video on this that you sent me Uhhuh, I thought, yep, you're still leaving something at the airport. Granted, okay, there's a car there and it's waiting and you get to drive it, but you're still leaving this whole rig at the airport.
Rose EP36: And I think the Cessna was like $6,500.
Emily EP36: It's, yeah. I mean, that's what
Rose EP36: going to, I'm not gonna derail you too much, but this part horrifies Emily EP36: But yeah. Scary.
Rose EP36: It sounds horrifying.
Then that's what you're, on the team for. That Sounds like you love that feature as somebody that's gas conscious.
Emily EP36: no. So he, uh, yeah. That's how easy it was
Emily EP36: YI mean, yeah. I can't, I'm like, what?
Emily EP36: I mean, Zelensky engineered these Emily EP36: So there, here they come Rose EP36: I think that's kind of funny because like you read old newspapers and they like give out your home address. You know, like,
They got the promo videos out, they're ready to make more prototypes. Our friends at Galpin Ford came in and decided to be the distributors and they logged 34 pre-orders. And also the miser got a movie deal for the James Bond movie that was coming out. The Man With the Golden Gun.
Rose EP36: again, what, , was there any logic behind the name Mis Are I, Emily EP36: No. Oh no. They sold 34 of 'em already. And this was less than a month later. So they hadn't fixed any of the problems. Janice was not available. Maybe because maybe Janice wasn't available because, you know, he knew this was
So that guy is already like, he's, not, it doesn't say he's specifically an experimental test pilot. He's just a pilot. Far higher. Yeah. And he was like, you all almost got me fucking killed.
Rose EP36: uh, 49 50.
Rose EP36: His dream of the flying wing was finally making it to production and for use. So what I'm getting at with this very long-winded sort of backstory about Northrop, it is going
Emily EP36: believed in it so much that when Janice wouldn't fly it, they were like, Hey, God, damnit Rose, knock it off.
Rose EP36: mention the self-tapping screws Rose EP36: the string from the ends of the tie rods back to the rudder Rose EP36: things that just go over real briefly. You've got a car
Emily EP36: feet. Do you think they could have opened the doors 800 feet with
Rose EP36: Oh, let's see. I'm on, I'm on his page here and just gonna find the info. Let's take a quick look. This is Project Excelsior and his first high altitude jump was from about 76,400 feet.
The two, Red Bull guys put their planes into a stall and then they tried to jump over to the each other's plane and then start them and take off again.
Emily EP36: Um, I mean, just Rose EP36: I mean, really the arrogance too would be like, no, we got, because they didn't even tell the, control tower that they They did the pi. What hap how, how did
So it's not on them. Yeah. You gotta wonder if Bo if maybe Bo has something like in the archives,
Rose EP36: is, they wanted his brother to do something like that and they made this like spy movie for his brother, but he can't act. It is a cult classic.
Rose EP36: Yeah. All, all the, Mr. Bean, LO's 15 episodes. One season we watched Mr. Bean quite a bit when at my grandparents when I was a kid. 'cause we'd watch PBS, we'd watch the Red Green show and then we would like catch are you being served?
Six 50 cc engines turned on their side. So the output shaft's pointing up and it ran these like high output fans that actually put the car on a little cushion of air, about six inches. Now I know there's a lot of people in this country that are confused on what's six inches, but it's short little cushion of air for this flying car. Quote unquote
Emily EP36: Um, Rose EP36: it's one of my favorites., I have a photo with it. I love that photo for a long time. It's like me, a cup of coffee and rotar like,
Rose EP36: Like I was freaked out taking my van on the highway for the first time, even just down the road when I did the front clip and like I've done clips on cars. It's scary. You take a brand new thing out. Anything could happen and like in a flat front van like that, like if something hung up and stalled and it would slam me into the dashboard and this guy's like, I'm gonna drop myself from 800 feet out of the sky.
Erola Emily EP36: Yeah, she's dead panning me. She's dead panning me, so I'm gonna move on. It had the wings would
Emily EP36: Yeah, the Pinto story's great. And I thought maybe the, uh, a car, because I didn't, I went into it, but I didn't wanna put too much on the show because I think we might do a deep dive on it.
Emily EP36: So whatever it was a, craft that was approved for both air and travel. And apparently it's the only one in the US that's, happened for, because his whole thing was he wanted to create one for the masses.
I didn't put this down, but it did fly for quite a while before it, like, started running outta gas. Like I said, there's one that flies still now. What?
Emily EP36: Okay. Sure. I believe you. Do you think also something for the listeners, do you think that flying cars are futuristic?
Emily EP36: Hey, weeks from now, we are weeks from now. Next episode. I think it's the next episode. We have a call in from Gina and we have Danny Soliz wrote in. And Rose, I think you've had some other write-ins from sema. You had a bunch of SEMA write-ins, you know. Yeah,
Rose EP36: in. Gina called in, had a lot of nice things to say.
Oh my God. I mean, if you count, oh my God.
About this episode
The hosts dive into the quirky world of flying cars, discussing unique hybrids like a Pinto combined with a Cessna and the challenges of making flying cars practical. They share amusing anecdotes about iconic station wagons from TV and explore the history and engineering behind experimental flying vehicles, including prototypes linked to movies and ambitious pilots. The conversation blends humor, nostalgia, and technical curiosity, touching on community vibes in Portland's car scene and teasing upcoming listener call-ins and SEMA event stories.
