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Date:         Wed, 18 Oct 1995 09:36:00 -0700 (PDT)
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From:         tfab@netcom.com (thom fitzpatrick)
Subject:      /f Acceleration++

And Michael Wagner thus wrote: > > The place I'm temping has a business unit that manufactures the turbine > engines for the Navy's Harpoon missile, and it looks like an IDEAL size > to strap/weld onto the sides of a Transporter for vastly improved freeway > acceleration.

There is an urban legend of a guy strapping a JATO unit to the top of a chevy nova out in the desert.

ran out of "runway" and slammed into a cliff at better than 300mph.

The authorites that scraped him off the cliff (ala Wiley Coyote) thought it was a plane crash at first...

(I can see this thread already: "A JATO unit would have been pure _luxury_ for use; we had to use a saturn V booster rocket...)

Thom -- > Paganism: Lots of Shit is Happening. Thom Fitzpatrick tfab@netcom.com ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/tf/tfab/home.html '56 VW Sunroof Kombi '72 Porsche 911T Targa (For sale: $5000/bo) Casually seeking '51-'55 Barndoor Deluxe Project


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