COOL VW

Ron Patrick - "The car has two engines: the production gasoline engine in the front driving the front wheels and the jet engine in the back. The idea is that you drive around legally on the gasoline engine and when you want to have some fun, you spin up the jet and get on the burner (you can start the jet while driving along on the gasoline engine). The car was built because I wanted the wildest street-legal ride possible. With this project, I was able to use some stuff I learned while getting my fancy engineering degree (I have a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University) to design a street-legal jet car without the distraction of how other people have done it in the past - because no one has. I don't know how fast the car will go and probably never will. The car was built to thrill me, not kill me. That doesn't stop me from the occasional blast on the highway though." His four year $250,000 dream was to put a rocket into his Beetle. I really like this because its not cool in the normal sense of "cool", he did not put it in a some super car. But thats what turns me on about it, he put it in a car with a flower holder on the dashboard. Its just great and i would really like to go for a ride.