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VW Beetle Fitted with a Jet Engine
6031769 writes "Ron Patrick has decided to go that little bit further by souping up his VW beetle with a jet engine, as reported by the San Francisco Chronicle. Serious planning went into the project. Patrick said, 'We did (computerized) structural analysis and we did stability analysis. And by God, you know what happens? It works!' Contrast with the Rocket Boy to see how it should not be done." Yes, the Darwin award winner was found to be bogus, but unlike the myth, Ron still lives!
Hey i have prior art! I should have patented this...
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Batman
Is there a bumper sticker that says: How do you like my driving? Dial 1-800-EAT-SHIT.
Ah.. finally, uselessness done right!
In Soviet Russia, beetle get smashed on windsheild. In America, Beetle smash YOU!
No, Mr. Green. Communism is just a red herring.
Or does combining a volkswagon bug and a tail pipe so large that it make goatse jealous seem very.. nevermind.
Have you ever been to a turkish prison?
Patrick says that once in a while he puts on a crash helmet (mainly as a sound muffler), takes the car out on nearby Highway 237 in the wee hours of the morning and fires it up for a brief and hopefully cop-free run.
I frequently travel home from work on Hwy. 237 in Sunnyvale in the wee hours of the morning. I think I'd better watch out for this guy. I doubt my unmodfied Hyundai Accent could keep up, or even get out of the way for that matter.
And the brethren went away edified.
German for nutcase
Yeah, I'd hate to see that speeding ticket. It'd cost twice as much as the rocket car.
At least he didn't decide to suprise the owner with this upgrade, like this guy did...
"Darwin Express"
Table-ized A.I.
It's one thing to be tricking out a Honda Civic (ricer) or IROC (white trash), but adding a jet engine to a new Beetle in San Francisco is the tuner equivalent of Richard Simmons dancing in an Elton John music video.
"No beer until you finish your tequila!" -Leela's Dad
This guy must be pretty confident the cost of gas will eventually come back down.
If a baby duck is a "duckling," why would anyone want to eat "dumplings?"
but can it fly? and can you imagine the MPG on that thing? it would probably make jumbo jet sized SUV's jealous!
Spinners, HID-headlights and a massive wing spoiler to go with that fat chrome tip.
Time to pimp das Auto! Amerikan engineering in da Haus, ja.
covering the most awesome truth-is-stranger-than-fiction stuff where every geek looks and says in a Keanu Reeves voice: "Whoa..."
What a great article!
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for everybody pointing and laughing at his "chick" car with built-in flower vase. Now it's a jet-propelled chick car.
They say the first thing to go is your penis. Well, it's either that or your brain. I forget which...
Oops
Me "Punch buggy blue!"
gf "Oww! Where? I don't see it..."
me "Too slow!"
by souping up his VW beetle with a jet engine,
Shouldn't it be, "adding a VW-beetle to his jet engine"?
Table-ized A.I.
'till Ron Patrick hits a speed bump
a partial guide to life:
You can pretty much fuck around with your youth however you want. Dress crazy, sleep around, be poor, be rich, whatever. There comes a point -- let's say 30 -- when you need to get serious and start thinking about the future. I'm not talking about a job or investing or anything, I mean, do that stuff, but we're not covering that here. We're talking about identity and personality... who you are. There comes a time when reinventions of self are just tedious to your friends and family, so you need to pick a target for middle/old age, and then work, slowly, on gracefully transitioning from whoever you were at 29 into that guy.
I think this is my guy.
(idea cribbed somewhat from Vice magazine)
In Capitalist America, bank robs you!
The infamous Rocket Car story always specifies a late 1960s Chevy Impala as the pilot's first choice...
"But despite all these oversights, the story did specify that the car was a 1967 Chevy Impala. I think the reason this detail is always supplied is because it's critical to make the listener think the test pilot at least looked cool when he flew into the cliff. You'll never hear someone tell a story about a guy in a rocket-powered K-car or a Volkswagen Beetle. It has to be a car that deserves to have a rocket attached to it."
The Rocket Car Legend
Yes, but can they claim such a ridicilously low MPG?
Why wouldn't he have put one of those in a Jetta? It seems much more appropriate to me.
As the Top Gear people did with this Mini with 4 rockets in the boot: http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZnHsw66dz4A
Beating up people in little rooms, if you do it for a good reason you do it for a bad one.
It's kinda slow, though.
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