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At night the home-brew propellant bonfires light up the playa with eerie chemical spectra.
This wild mustang ghost rider emerged from a repurposed clothes-drying tub.
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Did they get it to talk? I’m about ready to torture my dryer too.
"Where did you hide all those socks!"
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You probably heard of it before Steve. But in case you haven’ t . I came across that crazy "Car/Rocket-Rider" Story, tonight :
1995 Darwin Awards-Jet Assisted Take-Off
The Arizona Highway Patrol were mystified when they came upon a pile of smoldering wreckage embedded in the side of a cliff rising above the road at the apex of a curve. The metal debris resembled the site of an airplane crash, but it turned out to be the vaporized remains of an automobile. The make of the vehicle was unidentifiable at the scene.
The folks in the lab finally figured out what it was, and pieced together the events that led up to its demise.
It seems that a former Air Force sergeant had somehow got hold of a JATO (Jet Assisted Take-Off) unit. JATO units are solid fuel rockets used to give heavy military transport airplanes an extra push for take-off from short airfields.
Dried desert lakebeds are the location of choice for breaking the world ground vehicle speed record. The sergeant took the JATO unit into the Arizona desert and found a long, straight stretch of road. He attached the JATO unit to his car, jumped in, accelerated to a high speed, and fired off the rocket.
The facts, as best as could be determined, are as follows ….
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Thanks for link and information about it Jim ; )
(True or not..that s why it s called a crazy stroy =P )
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