The automobile was featured as the "Flying Wombat" in the David O. Selznick film The Young in Heart (1938), starring Janet Gaynor, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Paulette Goddard, and Billie Burke. [4] [6] [7] The Corsair was featured in a segment of the Popular Science film series in 1938. [7]

The six-passenger 2-door sedan Flying Wombat featured in the film was actually the one-of-a-kind prototype Phantom Corsair. The Phantom Corsair concept car was built in 1938 and designed by Rust Heinz of the H. J. Heinz family and Maurice Schwartz of the Bohman & Schwartz coachbuilding company in Pasadena, California .

Car enthusiasts know this unique machine as the Phantom Corsair, but in a classic romantic comedy of 1938 it was the Flying Wombat. See it in action here. The Young in Heart, produced by David O. Selznik in 1938, was one of the classic screwball comedies of the era.

In the movie, the Corsair was known as the Flying Wombat. Seeking more publicity, Rust Heinz displayed the Phantom Corsair at the 1939 New York Worlds Fair. During a visit to his family in Pittsburgh, Heinz decided to go to a dance with friends.

Feb 3, 2023 · Dubbed “The Car of Tomorrow” by Esquire magazine when it was featured on the cover, The Phantom Corsair concept car was built in 1938. Designed by Rust Heinz...

One of the most spectacular cars that appeared in 1938 was The Flying Wombat-"The Car that Thinks for You." This futuristic automobile made a splash in the 1938 movie "The Young in Heart" starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Paulette Goddard, Janet Gaynor, and Billie Burke.

After its stint at the 1939 World's Fair, it moved on to a new career in Hollywood as the mysteriously sinister 'Flying Wombat,' in the David O. Selznick production, 'The Young in Heart,' which starred screen legend Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

The Curse of the Flying Wombat is a 13-part serial forming most of series four of the British radio comedy series I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again that was first broadcast between 3 October and 26 December 1966. [1] It was written by Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie.

In another world exclusive (get the Walkleys and Pulitzers ready) we have found the location of the world’s only Flying Wombat. Get the tissues out readers, friends and others for this is what classic car writer Mick Davis calls a saga of self-made fortunes, divorces, suicides, alcoholism, fatal car, aircraft crashes and tomato sauce.

It was in this film that the car gained the nickname "The Flying Wombat." Above: YouTube video of the Phantom Corsair residing in the National Automobile Museum, in Reno, Nevada. See links below.