re: deathtraps

[ChuckKuecker <ckuecker@mcs.net>]

At 21:55 8/29/97 -0700, you wrote:
>
>>	I remember hearing about some loony that somehow managed to acquire a
>>jet engine and bolt it onto his car.  He chose what he thought to be a
>>sufficiently long stretch of highway down Death Valley way, and
>>proceeded to go real fast for a real short time.  As the story goes, he
>>sparked the engine, went a couple hundred miles an hour, and then found
>>himself approaching a turn in the road.  I think that he turned his
>>brakes into liquid and quickly followed up with a real big
>>crash...flipped a bunch of times and was buried with his "car".
>>
>>	I dunno, that's probably the death trap of death traps if ya arske me.
>>Oh, I'm sorry, didn't you ask?
>>
>>jason
>>87 16V
>
>
>This "loony" didn't happen to be Craig Breedlove, right?  Anyway, no more
>Roadrunner cartoons for Jason.  benton---------

That was a post on the Darwin Awards, if I remember right. Some Air Force
guy with JATO bottles and an old Chevy.

Chuck Kuecker

ckuecker@mcs.net

'83 Scirocco (new paint!)
'58 Ghia Convert
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'91 Vanagon


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