There were some pretty dang fast Fords at Milan Dragway last weekend, but one car tearing up the strip wasn't a Ford at all. Yep, we're talking about the 300 MPH jet-powered dragster driven by Elaine Larsen. Basically, it's a Pratt & Whitney J-60 with wheels and a cockpit, and it was all home-built by the Larsen family…

Jet dragsters are so batshit loony, so excessive, that it takes a hard hard indeed not to love them. The tale of the Green Mamba really tugs at the ol' heartstrings; built in '68 by madman Doug Rose, who then took the Mamba on the dragstrip circuit for decades of afterburner-blastin' good times, the car was ripped off …