JATO ROCKET CAR

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The Rocket Car Legend

  • Rocket Car Legend - The "True" Story - Luxury At The Speed Of Sound - One aspect of the Rocket Car legend that always tickles me is that no matter how much the story varies, the make, model and year of the car is always specified.
  • . In the Darwin Award version, there's no mention of which highway the car was on, or even whereabouts in Arizona the story took place.
  • . But despite all these oversights, the story did specify that the car was a 1967 Chevy Impala.
  • . You'll never hear someone tell a story about a guy in a rocket-powered K-car or a Volkswagen Beetle.
  • . It has to be a car that deserves to have a rocket attached to it.
  • . In the case of our Rocket Car, we gave some serious thought to not even using a car body.
  • . As soon as we got back to the scrapyard, Beck wanted to weld one of the JATO's to a bucket car, stick the car on a track, and light the rocket.
  • . He was doubtless the craziest member of Team Rocket Car, and if I'd been willing to go along with his idea, I have no doubt he'd have climbed in and lit the fuse himself.



    Darwin Awards: Rocket Car
  • Darwin Awards: Rocket Car Spunk Library What chubby drivers will do to compete.
  • . The wreckage resembled the site of an airplane crash, but it was a car.
  • . The type of car was unidentifiable at the scene.
  • . Then he attached the JATO unit to his car, jumped in, got up some speed and fired off the JATO! The facts as best as could be determined are that the operator of the 1967 Impala hit JATO ignition at a distance of approximately 3.0 miles from the crash site.



    True Story of the Arizona Rocket Car??? - On the internet
  • > True Story of the Arizona Rocket Car??? True Story of the Arizona Rocket Car??? User #71962 1448 posts Whirlpool Enthusiast This is a fairly long read, but it may provide some insight into that long-running urban legend.
  • . looked cool even with the rockets they put on the car, and had more power than the jato.
  • . As for the dangerous comment, I agree - thats why its entertaining! Its like NASCAR where you wait for the "splat" cos the rest is sooo dull.
  • . Claiming his friend left a burnout on a bend while leaving the scene of the crime where a car was embedded in a rock wall due to a mine cave in is more than sus.



    Reference.com/Encyclopedia/JATO Rocket Car
  • Dictionary Thesaurus Encyclopedia Web Premium: | ADVERTISEMENT - - Encyclopedia - JATO Rocket Car The famous Rocket Car story was one of the original winners but has now been debunked as an, though the staff of the Darwin Awards decided it was such a funny story to "grandfather" it in and let it keep its award.
  • . The car did go very fast, maybe 150 mph (240 km/h), but did not go anywhere near 300 mph (500 km/h), and did not become airborne.
  • . the wreckage resembled the site of an airplane crash, but it was a car.
  • . The type of car was unidentifiable at the scene.
  • . Then he attached the JATO unit to his car, jumped in, got up some speed and fired off the JATO! The facts, as best could be determined, are that the operator of the 1967 Impala hit JATO ignition at a distance of approximately 3.0 miles from the crash site.
  • . the legend was further embellished with references to the year of manufacture of the car and G-Forces and to the form which was widely circulated via email (55% of all postings on usenet which included "JATO Rocket Darwin Award impala" also included "g-forces").

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    JATO - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  • . Two similar experiment programs were carried out by both the US Air Force in the late with a modified, designated the EF-84G , and by the Soviet VVS in the at around the same time, with a modified fighter, designated SM-30, launched from a special launcher, using a nearly identical solid fueled rocket booster design to that of the EF-84G, which used the cruise missile's solid fuel booster.
  • . was a United States military operation plan in late 1980 to rescue hostages held by Iran using C-130 cargo planes modified with rocket engines to enable a very short take off and landing.
  • . The is a famous that relates the story of a car equipped with JATO units for a lark, that is later found smashed into a mountainside.
  • . The car did go very fast, maybe 150 mph, but did not go anywhere near 300 mph, and did not become airborne.
  • . However, a nearly verbatim copy of the cDc version is detailed, involving a car frame attached to an old mine railcar and a JATO rocket as described in the Cult of the Dead Cow version.


    Real-Life JATO Car
  • | Real-Life JATO Car Status: Strange, but real The JATO (jet-assisted take-off) car is one of the most famous urban legends of all time.
  • . (Man attaches JATO unit to the top of his Chevy Impala, fires it up on a deserted Arizona highway, and launches himself into a nearby cliff at 300 mph.) But the reports about a man, Ron Patrick, who has built a real-life JATO car.
  • . Patrick gave this description of turning on the jet engine while driving: "You drive the car up to about 90 miles an hour and you spool up the jet, then hit it W.O.T.
  • . yet -- the car will start lifting off the ground, but "the fun is not necessarily how fast you want to go.
  • . It is a jet engined "Funny Car".
  • . It certainly wouldn't be legal on any public road without permission from whomever is in charge of that sort of thing, so if he's just going out and doing this he'd better be careful that nobody from the Arizona Highway Patrol reads about his car.
  • . The car is simply a Jet powered car.
  • . If the car was driven by a gearbox from the turbine, it would be a gas turbine driven car.


    Wired 8.08: Heard the One About the Rocket Car?
  • . Heard the One About the Rocket Car? (continued) PLUS I said, "Of course I looked there.
  • . This was my very first encounter with the story of the rocket car in writing - a description of a 1995 Darwin Award winner.
  • . Then he attached the JATO unit to his car, jumped in, got up some speed, and fired off the JATO! The facts as best could be determined are that the operator of the 1967 Impala hit JATO ignition at a distance of approximately 3.9 miles from the crash site.
  • . And if the JATO was still blazing away, the car would drill itself into the ground like a tent spike before it got 50 feet from the ignition site.
  • . The real question is, How did such a story ever get started in the first place? Just Desert When my friends and I set out to build the vehicle we test-fired in the spring of 1978, a real-life, jet-powered, road-traveling car was exactly what we had in mind.


    The Rocketman Xtreme
  • . Ky stands proudly next to rocket car that he built in Kitty O' Neil's shop in California.
  • . $5, 000 Reward For the return of this car.
  • . This car had 25, 1, 000 lb thrust JATO bottles and was built by Walt Arfons.

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    The rocket car legend (Ron Rader; John De Armond; P. L. Albrecht)
  • The rocket car legend (Ron Rader; John De Armond; P.
  • . > > The wreckage resembled the site of an airplane crash, but it was a > car.
  • . The type of car was unidentifiable at the scene.
  • . Then he attached the JATO > unit to his car, jumped in, got up some speed, and fired off the JATO!! > > Best as they could determine, he was doing somewhere between 250 and > 300 mph (350-420kph) when he came to that curve....
  • . > The brakes were completely burned away, apparently from trying to > slow the car.
  • . Andy was driving the car down a 2 lane highway with his brothers in another rod following right behind so as to get a good view.
  • . He then went on to describe how they rigged the car with a selector to fire one bottle at a time.
  • . They then hit the carnival and barnstorming circuit with the car running on fairgrounds short tracks.
  • . Andy's autobiography is kinda old ( I read it in high school) but is a RIOT and contains lots of info on his turbine car.
  • . In his autobiography "They call me Mister 500" (how's that for humility) he says that he and his brothers used to put on a show at coounty fairs in the late 40s or early 50s with a low-powered rocket strapped to a car.


    JATO Rocket Car - Bvio
  • The famous '''JATO Rocket Car''' story was one of the original winners but has now been debunked as an, though the staff of the Darwin Awards decided it was such a funny story to "grandfather" it in and let it keep its award.
  • . The car did go very fast, maybe 150 mph (240 km/h), but did not go anywhere near 300 mph (500 km/h), and did not become airborne.
  • . the wreckage resembled the site of an airplane crash, but it was a car.
  • . The type of car was unidentifiable at the scene.
  • . Then he attached the JATO unit to his car, jumped in, got up some speed and fired off the JATO! :The facts, as best could be determined, are that the operator of the 1967 Impala hit JATO ignition at a distance of approximately 3.0 miles from the crash site.
  • . Both were contained in a posted to rec.motorcycles of the JATO Rocket Car .
  • . the legend was further embellished with references to the year of manufacture of the car and G-Forces and to the form which showed up in mailbox 1-1/2 months later (55% of all postings on usenet which included "JATO Rocket Darwin Award impala" also included "g-forces").


    1959 Chevrolet Impala Rocket Sled
  • Site Navigation Models Batmobiles Custom Toys & Action Figures Daily Drivers Hot Rods & Customs Police Cars Racing Special Projects Transformers (Classic) Transformers (Machine Wars) Transformers (Robots in Disguise) Transformers (Armada) Transformers (Energon) TV & Movie Machines Diorama "The Meeting" 1959 Chevrolet Impala Rocket Sled Original Kit: 1959 Chevrolet Impala Hardtop Made By: Monogram Scale: 1/25 I think by now, nearly everyone has heard the story of the rocket car.
  • . I first read about it a few years ago, and since then have heard several versions of the rocket car story as it has transcended into the realm of urban legend.
  • . I found one web site (now defunct, see links at right for a reprint of the site) that chronicles the events leading up to a rocket car, and what had happened to it.
  • . I have no idea of the validity of the story, but I found it entertaining, and decided to go ahead and build myself a rocket car based on that specific story.
  • . I started with Monogram's '59 Chevy Impala Hardtop, and built the body & interior box stock (though heavily weathered, since this was supposed to be a car from a junkyard).


    Unofficial Mythbusters: Pilot 1: Jet Car (JATO) and Pop Rocks
  • . Pilot 1: Jet Car (JATO) and Pop Rocks Attaching Jet-Assisted-Take-Off (JATO) rocket can cause a car to become airborne: busted Pop rocks and soda can cause your stomatch to burst: busted At long last, thanks to the help of Paul, I've been able to watch the much heralded Jet Car episode.
  • . It was different from their other episodes, in that it was 80% jet car myth and 20% secondary myth (Pop Rocks and Cola).
  • . Accordingly, this entry will be 80% jet car and 20% Pop Rocks.
  • . Jet Car (JATO) The Jet Car myth is a popular one that you can .
  • . He gets his car up to about 80mph and then lights off the JATO.
  • . The JATO pushes the car up to 300 mph.
  • . The driver tries to brake the car, but the car won't stop and the brakes burn out (evidenced by long skidmarks in the road).
  • . The car then takes off and slams itself into the side of a cliff.
  • . With a bit of steel cage reinforcement and yet-another-Jamie-remote-control-car conversion (#3 by my count), the car was ready-to-go.

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    mythbustersfanclub.com - JATO Chevy

  • JATO Chevy JATO Chevy Written by ndgeoman and mrsgeekboy Saturday, 01 November 2003 Episode Name: JATO Rocket Car Original Air Date: January 23, 2003 Myths: Jet Assisted Chevy, PopRocks and Soda Can Kill JATO Car The Myth:The Arizona Highway Patrol responded to a call about some smoldering wreckage on the side of a mountain near a highway.
  • . The sergeant thought it would be fun to have the additional thrust on his car, a 1967 Chevy Impala.
  • . At 350 mph the roof would be blown off a car.
  • . The car would become airborne at around 200 mph as air goes under the car, which would cause it to flip over.
  • . He estimates the car went about 180 mph.
  • . This car breaks down after only 8.5 miles, 3 hours from Jamie’s shop.
  • . Once the car is towed to the shop, the roof is reinforced with a steel cage inside of the car and a mounting platform is made.
  • . Since the myth specifically states that the driver of the car died, Jamie makes the car remote-controlled.
  • . Due to the limited range of the radio control transmitter and the possible speed of the car, Jamie designs the controls to reset to a preset position in case radio contact is lost.


    The Budweiser rocket car in 1979
  • A Review of Chuck Yeager's Letter of Testimony on the Budweiser Rocket Car by The purpose of this review is to encourage the reader to reevaluate a document that has been used to support the Project S.O.S.
  • . (Speed Of Sound) claim that Stan Barrett drove the Budweiser rocket car to a speed exceeding Mach 1.
  • . On December 17, 1979 Stan Barrett was strapped into the cockpit of the Budweiser rocket car waiting to make a final run in an attempt to be the first person to drive a land-bound vehicle faster than the speed of sound.
  • . Previous trials exposed shortcomings in the basic design of the car.
  • . The only issues of critical importance are: did this car reach and exceed Mach 1; and is there evidence that can support such a claim? On that cool December morning, Stan Barrett and the Budweiser rocket car were ready to answer the skeptics.
  • . A preliminary investigation of the run data was interpreted, indicating a high degree of probability that the car exceeded the speed of sound by achieving a velocity of 739.666 miles per hour, or Mach 1.01.


    City of Sacramento Department of Parks and Recreation
  • 2000 Newsroom Archive NEWS ADVISORY Indy/Rocket Car Resurrected After 54 Years in Waiting News Conference: Sacramento City Hall Wednesday, May 24, 2000, 11 a.m.
  • . Appropriately named the Indy Rocket Car, McRae will ignite the relic from racing's past in front of City Hall for a media preview and video shoot.
  • . Tom McRae's Indy Rocket Car is the feature car for the History Channel Great Race June 11-24, 2000, which starts in Boston and finishes in Sacramento.
  • . The 18th annual transcontinental rally-race features a collection of vintage cars valued at nearly $3 million.
  • . It is the world's richest vintage car event.
  • . The Don Hulbert Special was created for the 1934 Indy 500 by famed Indy car builder "Pop" Dryer.
  • . Car owner Don Hulbert, a Chicago Ford dealer, required the car to look somewhat like a Ford, hence the '34 Ford grille and Ford drive train.
  • . Following the Special's retirement from Indy, the Granatelli brothers, owners of a Chicago hot-rod shop, purchased the car in hopes of going racing one day.


    MonkeyFilter | Rocket Car!!
  • . posted by at 01:57AM UTC (7 comments total) Is this the JATO-Impala urban legend which turned out not to be an urban legend? And it turned out some guys did make a rocket car, only on a bit of railway track, and manage not to get killed? Cos that's a classic bit of a yarn, & well worth remembering, just for its summation of our species' inherent nature: crazy-genius monkey-rocket death-seducers.
  • . First, anybody who understood the extreme forces involved well enough to attach a JATO unit to a car so that it would keep the car going in a straight line (rather than immediately spinning around) would not do it in the first place.


    Gary Kuck and his Rocket Car
  • Gary Kuck and his Rocket Car LINCOLN, Neb.
  • . – Picture this: It’s the Alabama State Fair in October of 1946, and “Antonio the Great” wheels his Rocket Car down the straightaway of a dirt track, tail ablaze with eight rockets belching fire and smoke.
  • . This Rocket Car was originally the Don Hulbert Special.
  • . The 220-cubic-inch V-8 wasn’t competitive at Indy and the car failed to qualify.
  • . Granatelli and his two brothers owned a speed shop in Chicago and they bought the car.
  • . In 1946, they added eight JATO rockets to the tail and 23-year-old Andy Granatelli campaigned the car at small dirt tracks and county fairs.
  • . In 1983, the Rocket Car was brought back to its original Indy configuration by Stan Betz of Orange, Calif.
  • . Two years ago, Gary Kuck of Lincoln, Neb., bought the car to use in the Great Race.
  • . Gardner and Kuck put in countless hours on the car.
  • . Gardner built the flathead V-8 and Kuck oversaw the car’s construction.
  • . This year they hope it will carry them to the first victory of its career.

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