What makes a man do this II?

[Ala]

.... a fellow hack from the United States told me a story which deserves mention if only as a warning to amateur engineers around the globe. The day he had left the US he had heard this bizarre tale on the radio, involving a car nut in Arizona who wanted to soup-up his Chevrolet Monte Carlo a little.

He had broken into one of the vast aeroplane graveyards they have in the Arizona desert and found a Boeing B52 bomber - a Stratofortress. The US service men used to call them BUFFs, which apparently stood for something along the lines of "Big Ugly Fat Flying Machine". Well, that is not strictly true, you know these military types, the second F stood for something rather ruder. The B52 when fully loaded weighs in at 240 tons and so to get them off the ground the US Air Force developed booster rockets, which fired for 24 seconds and produced 6000 lbs. of thrust. The Arizona car nut wanted one of these.

He was smart enough to demount it and worked out how it was fired but he did not think too much about what it might do if attached to his Chevrolet Monte Carlo...

Having completed the transplant he headed off to a straight piece of desert road to test the car. What actually happened has been reconstructed by accident investigators. A Chevrolet Monte Carlo weighs in at around a ton and a half which means that with a 6,000lb booster rocket it could probably go vertically upwards for 24 seconds if pointed in the right direction.

A smudge on the road indicated where Mr. Car Nut fired the rocket. The investigators reckon that after three seconds the Chevrolet was doing 150mph when the driver decided to apply the brakes. These did not achieve much. At six seconds the car was doing around 300mph when it took off. At 12 seconds there was a boom as it passed through the sound barrier - at around 750mph - becoming the only Chevrolet Monte Carlo ever to break that barrier - Dale Earnhardt eat your heart out! At 12.2secs there was another bang when it hit a hillside, 150 ft. above the road. Of the car and driver there was little evidence left, apart from the odd matchbox-sized pieces...

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Only in America

 

[Moo]

or austrailia

u kinda need big open spaces for that thing

and ofc stupid people.

 

[Raven]

lol poor bastard

 

[mts]

False story according to snopes.

Seems to differ a bit, but since that one emerged way back in '95 it has probably mutated a bit.

Cool scenario though

 

[Ala]

Damn that snopes! They just wanna ruin all the fun in teh world.

 

[mts]

Damn that snopes! They just wanna ruin all the fun in teh world.

yeah i knows, they shatter alot of really cool stories and urban legends :<

 

[Sissyfoo]

But it does help me look really smug and arrogant in the office when I can disprove some of the tripe my co-workers come up with.

(not that I need any help)

 

[Dillinja]

I once read on snopes that everything snopes says is false.

 

[mts]

I once read on snopes that everything snopes says is false.

Well, I once read on snopes that-



...nah, fuck it :-O

 

[harebear]

lol some funny shit happens in the US, kinda scary as they are the most powerful country on earth thou

 

[Dillinja]

Or so they would have us think...

 

[eggy]

That's how I want to go out.

 

[slaaght]

I dunno about that, we Brits lead the world in nutters.

Jet engines on a go-kart or go-ped anyone?

http://www.jetped-boarders.co.uk/

... well OK the Aussies give us a run for our money (nods to Ted )

http://www.madv8bike.com/id10.html

 

[tedStar]

Wahahahaha that story almost had me in tears... gave the parents a good laugh too, whether its true or false...

In case you havent seen the movies i've made doing stupid stuff... i'll vouch for the australians!

i posted em on tmm forums a while back