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    Make Your Own Mad Max Interceptor From a "Ferrari"
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    Image of M M
    05/08/09

    In reply to Make Your Own Mad Max Interceptor From a "Ferrari"
    Peter!Apparently we were all very pinewood derbish with this,yet we haven't discovered warp speed!
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    Image of Peter Orosz Peter Orosz
    05/08/09

    @M: I completely underestimated the collective rocketry genius about to emerge in the comments. Yeah, we're just hopped up on coffee but this place is teeming with rocket scientists.


    I think it's time to launch my plastic fantastic GTO into Martian orbit.

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    05/08/09

    In reply to Make Your Own Mad Max Interceptor From a "Ferrari"
    Re NOS vs N2O....


    You're aright, Pete. And so's your mom.


    Er....well....you know what I mean.

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    Image of SirNotAppearing SirNotAppearing
    05/08/09

    In reply to Make Your Own Mad Max Interceptor From a "Ferrari"
    You know, this place used to always be about ridiculous crap: dekatora, DAF/FAF, caminoization, 90's indie rock. So it makes me sad to see the comments fill up with "not news/slow news day" comments when an off-beat post is, uh, posted.
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    Image of Dr. H. F. Danger Dr. H. F. Danger
    05/08/09

    @SirNotAppearing:


    Better?

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    Image of LTDScott LTDScott
    05/08/09

    In reply to Make Your Own Mad Max Interceptor From a "Ferrari"
    For 4th of July a few years back, some friends and I mounted rocket motors to a number of scale cars including a "Canned Heat" R/C car and a 1:18 scale Chevy Impala low rider. I weighed down the R/C car to keep it from getting airborne and the weights just made the car spin like a top and was rather anti-climactic.


    The Impala wasn't quite up to the urban legend, but it did shoot across the parking lot rather impressively and smashed into a wall. To make it more faithful, we then filled the trunk with Black Cats and lit it on fire. That was pretty damn satisfying.


    And now we race LeMons cars, heh.

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    Image of Graverobber Graverobber
    05/08/09

    @LTDScott's work is getting in the way of Jaloptime: LeMons cars with rockets. . .


    That's effing brilliant.

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    05/08/09

    In reply to Make Your Own Mad Max Interceptor From a "Ferrari"
    Peter,

    You should try to break the end of the canisters and watch that car fly!

    As kid I did my own version: Estes rocket motor (imported from the US by an American friend) plus Lego car. Result: Lego bricks all over the driveway and a rocket motor embedded in the wall across the street. Needless to say it was a one time event, but boy was it fun! Even more fun than firecrackers in a Playmobile truck...
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    Image of Ubiquitous Silver Honda Ubiquitous Silver Honda
    05/08/09

    In reply to Make Your Own Mad Max Interceptor From a "Ferrari"
    We made a version off this in Eight grade shop class. The cars were wood ala pinewood derby. The canisters were CO2.
    Cars were launched two at a time. There was a spring loaded arm with two nails, triggered by a single rip cord. The bottom of cartridge opens easily, nothing was needed to hold the car back. Just a fast swat with a stick with a ail should it.
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    05/08/09

    @Ubiquitous Silver Honda: Yeah, I did the same thing. The best part is when they come apart and bits of wooden shrapnel fly everywhere.
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    Image of aSoundofSleep-less nights aSoundofSleep-less nights
    05/08/09

    In reply to Make Your Own Mad Max Interceptor From a "Ferrari"
    Peter, you have to be the luckiest guy on the planet. Not only do you get to tool around Europe and photograph some of the nicest vehicles ever produced, then blog about them on one of the best automotive websites around, you get to post stories about your drunken exploits with a Ferrari toy and N2O canisters.

    You are my hero, and we need to have a beer someday.
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    05/08/09

    The best thing is that we weren't even drunk!
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    Image of Peter Orosz Peter Orosz
    05/08/09

    @M: Perhaps caffeine in the doses you serve is a version of drunk.
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    05/08/09

    @aSoundofSleep: Any time, man. But if we do, we launch this car for good.
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    Image of Dr. H. F. Danger Dr. H. F. Danger
    05/08/09

    In reply to Make Your Own Mad Max Interceptor From a "Ferrari"
    Soo...you just have some extra N20 canisters just laying around?


    Is this the last two in the box?


    making whip-cream

    suuuuuuuuuuure

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    Image of Skunky Skunky
    05/08/09

    @Dr.Danger is a pottymouth: I'm still finding it interesting that whipits are "office supplies." That sure explains some of the posts.
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    05/08/09

    @Skunky: The least productive office ever. Imagine trying to have meetings, when the only thing people are hearing is: WEEEOOOOOOOSSHSHHhhhshhhHSHHHh...
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    05/08/09

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    Palm sized? These Shell Ferraris are 1:18. Are you a gorilla?
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    05/08/09

    @Syrax: Yeti!
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    Image of Leeeeena the Jalopchick Leeeeena the Jalopchick
    05/08/09

    In reply to Make Your Own Mad Max Interceptor From a "Ferrari"
    I was hoping to click through and find out this was actually miniaturized with pseudo-tilt-shift photography. Then you had to go ruin my fantasy with that picture with the twenty-foot soccer ball and giant Marlboro pack.
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    Image of WheatKing WheatKing
    05/08/09

    @Leeeeena the Jalopchick: Not to mention the half burnt fag.


    (awaits the flaming trolls)

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    05/08/09

    @Leeeeena the Jalopchick: That's a Volleyball...
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    05/08/09

    In reply to Make Your Own Mad Max Interceptor From a "Ferrari"
    slw nws dy hh?
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    05/08/09

    @WheatKing: u gt pwnd
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    Image of mytdawg mytdawg
    05/08/09

    In reply to Make Your Own Mad Max Interceptor From a "Ferrari"
    You're doing it wrong. Try Estes rocket motors.
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    05/08/09

    @mytdawg: Heart clicky for my Estes Air Force One 747.
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    05/08/09

    @dirtyjerseysti: We always loved to take the A and B rockets and try to stuff C's and D's in them. We very often lost the entire thing.
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    05/08/09

    In reply to Make Your Own Mad Max Interceptor From a "Ferrari"
    Nomination for Most. Useless. Post. Ever.
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    Image of SirNotAppearing SirNotAppearing
    05/08/09

    @MyDragonLovesBruce - now with witty suffix!: I nominate your comment for the same. Who doesn't like a good nitrous car?
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