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more about #jetcar more comments → Turboner: It really should say "Pussywagon" on the side and be painted pink, like all trucks. more » ArtForge: Top speed 200?!? Then what, the spikes fly off and pepper the crowds at whatever airshow it gets trailered to? I kinda wonder about the mudflaps. Why?... more » HoonThatFerrari: Afterburners are legal in most Southern states, as long as there are no Saturns behind you at the time you declare: "Engage!" more » UDMan: Or how about this: The Blastolene Peterbilt. That's a V-12 Detroit Diesel 2 Stroke! #trucks more » UDMan: Or this fantastic Peterbilt by Outlaw Customs. #trucks more » UDMan: I saw this truck. I've seen others that were better. Like this 1947 Diamond T. #trucks more » philibuster: So much for that towing capacity. #trucks more » FrankGrimes: Wilson manifolds makes jet stuff now? #trucks more » mercury_marine: I'd love to see this awful thing parked in a spot in a parking garage. #trucks more » that ain't the way to have fun, son: So...this is going to fly into the side of a cliff in the Arizona desert, right? Needs more powah! #trucks more » LandofMinos, cast thou evil bum dragger to thy scrapyard: Meet Biff Jetson... #trucks more » BigHarv: He's lucky the rear window isn't sucked out by the jet engine at full crank #trucks more » snapoversteer 'bout to get told: Whatever. Wake me when it breaks the sound barrier and enters the 8th dimension. #trucks more » souldoubt88: Lovin the front rims. Ben Hur FTW!!!! #trucks more » engineerd: Turbine cars, and particularly turbine engine swaps/additions, are cool. They're not necessarily cool in the supercar sense, nor in any automotive de... more » -
#sema
World's Fastest Street Legal Jet Truck Looks Illicit
The Frictionator Ford F650 has a General Electric J85 Jet Engine in the bed and is the "world's fastest street legal jet truck" though we're sure kicking on the afterburner invalidates that claim. One more check-body-cant-cash jet truck photo below. More » -
#foundonebay
Living With a Gas Turbine Is Not For the Faint of Heart
Remember the turbine-powered Porsche 928 from last May? Barely a year and a half after its debut on eBay, it was sold yet again—for $7500. More » -
#topgear
Does UK Comedian Wish Top Gear’s Richard Hammond Had Died In Jet Car Crash?
Daily Mail readers apparently hate Stewart Lee's bit about Richard Hammond's famous jet car crash, in which Lee says he wishes the Hamster had been "decapitated." We're guessing Lee was joking, you prats. [Daily Mail] -
#traffic
Driving On Cairo’s Congested Roads
The BBC’s Christian Fraser reports from the back seat of a dilapidated Fiat taxicab to describe a city of utter traffic mayhem. More » -
#lexus
Twin-Turbo Lexus IS-F: A Proper Jet Car Substitute
Don't think you can convince the owner of the Gilda Ghia to sell his jet car to you? A twin-turbo IS-F tuned by Fox Marketing and Artisan Performance almost sounds the part. More » -
#concorsodeleganza
Ghia Gilda Streamline X Coupé: Coolest Chrysler Ever Made
As the first day with Chrysler in bankruptcy dawns, let’s look at a mad car from an era when the automaker was set to conquer the very skies: the jet-powered Gilda coupĂ©. More » -
