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 from his apartment parking lot by scumbags who gutted it and sold off most of the components. Now Rose has the husk of the Green Mamba back and is trying to put it- his only source of income- back together. Let's hope he finds a source for another one of those toothed helmets.
Rebuilding a legend [St. Petersburg Times]
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