Petrolhead gives old 1967 Chevrolet a top speed of 300mph… by strapping a cruise missile to the roof

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• When you watch the video, just try to picture a fighter pilot climbing outside the plane with a piece of newspaper on fire, to light the afterburner when he wants more power. That's funny. They couldn't even bother to put an igniter back there. These guys are pure amateur.

• Having been involved in stunts and specialty automotive acts such as this in the past, I fully expected that this story would be absolute bullshit. Then I watched the video, and was assured that I was correct.

  First, in looking at the pictures, the only thing well built was the blond chick sitting on the hood in of the shots. There was nothing in the structure attaching the jet to the roof that would be able to transmit 10,000 HP. The car wasn't modified in any way that would make it able to be driven in any kind of a straight line if it were going 300 mph.

  Then there's the video. Pure hogwash. Everything that the car did could easily be done by a stock 1967 Chevy with the optional V-8. It just happened to have a surplus jet engine strapped to the top, making noise and belching out flame at appropriate moments. The jet didn't make the flame, either. That's a burner ring, right at the tail end of the jet, rigged to squirt kerosene into the very weak stream of air coming out of the idling jet motor, ignited by electric igniters. It adds NOTHING to the thrust of the jet, as an afterburner would.

  Total hogwash, but fun to watch. That's what most specialty vehicles are.

  • It'd be even more amusing if they spooled the engine up, and it took off, leaving the car behind.

    • Which IS exactly what would happen. If that engine is even in good enough condition to be spooled up without coming apart.

      I used to be the operator of a giant, car munching, fire breathing, "jet powered" dragon. It was a lot of fun, going to events all over the country, putting on shows. But, behind the fiberglass, there was a 4-cylinder Toyota, a small-block Chevy, and a tiny little jet, actually an Auxiliary Power Unit, from a C-141, to make noise like it was jet powered. It was pretty cool, but the jet didn't power any part of the machine. It was just there to make the proper noises.

      • A certain railroad which shall remain nameless has a 727 engine mounted backwards on a flatbed car for snow removal, with another car between it and a locomotive for weight. It never got past being experimental -- it tends to warp rails, throw 6" hunks of ballast at rifle speed, incinerate ties. But it *does* remove snow. Quickly.

        • Jet engines are awesome. I loved the sound of the APU winding up in the dragon, as I came out of the tunnels at stadiums. Normally, when starting, the igniter would be turned on, then the fuel, when the RPMs were high enough. But to make it sound cooler, I turned on the fuel, counted three, then hit the igniter. WUMPPPP!!! And the crowd goes WILD!

  • Hogwash? The guy must be a democrat.

• Faster than a falling Leaf...

  • better get about 10 miles away then, those things are toxic in a low speed crash.

• The car leaves LOTS of smoke? Great, all he has to do is find a few million mirrors and he is guaranteed a job with the Obama administration.