Craigslist Find: V-1 SPEEDIE DELIVERY ROCKET JET VAN!….PARTING OUT


Craigslist Find: V-1 SPEEDIE DELIVERY ROCKET JET VAN!….PARTING OUT

More specifically, this is an ad for a van with a turbine engine IN the roof as it was clearly plunked into is final resting place with some force because the roof is all caved in around it and the windshield is half busted out, etc. My buddy Dave Bernstein who is one of the most Craigslisty guys that I know sent me this link in a text message with the words, “BangShift Approved?” Of course it is! The second part of this story is the fact that the ad starts out as being downright funny with some of the claims and outlandish statement of the seller but by the end it seems like the writer went off his meds or something because it turns into the rambling jibberish you’d expect to hear from a crazy guy on a city street corner….that being said, we love all of it.

We’re not versed enough to know what type of power level that engine is, so maybe some of your airplane guys can sort that out for us, but it does look pretty good occupying the roof and part of the passenger compartment of this van. The whole contraption brings back the memories of that “Darwin Award” story from years ago with the guy who bolted the rocket engine or turbine (we can’t remember which) to the roof of an old Impala and then ended up wadded in a flaming lump of debris, smashed into the side of a cliff.

Normally we send you a link to the ad, but we KNOW this sucker is going to get pulled down so here’s the full text and all the photos. This will crack you up just like it did to us.

 

WE HAVE FOR SALE A JET POWERED FORD E350 VAN….LAND SPEED BONNEVILLE SALTFLATS RECORD HOLDER…SUPER SEXY CHICK MAGNET TOO!..ASK ANY SMELLY-HOOKER-PIRATE…LOOM LARGE IN YOUR OWN LEGEND!….EASY SPRINGTIME FAMILY FUN RESTO PROJECT….DAILY DRIVER IS CHEAP TO INSURE…PILOT THIS BOMB DOWN TO THE LOCAL CAR SHOW!….SAVE THIS HISTORIC SLED FROM THE SCREAMING FRYING PAN OF SMELTER DEATH…TIRES MAY HAVE AIR. THINK OF THE AWSOME NEUTRAL DROPS!…PULSEJET V-1 FLYING BOMB MOTOR WITH DUAL EXHAUST…ANGRY WIFE APPROVED!…SHE WOULD BE LUVVIN YOU BIGTIME WITH THIS SITTIN IN THE DRIVEWAY….TOM JONES SANG “SHES A WEINER”..HONEST…CONN DEATH CERTIFICATE INCLUDED WITH POST MORTIM MARTI REPORT..GONNA WIN THIS RACE SANG ELVIS AS HE STUFFED HIS FACE EATING DONUTS AS HE FELL OF THE TOILET…LETS GO PILEHUNTING!.JOHNSON! CATCH IT ON TUESDAY NIGHTS AT 8PM ON COX CABLE 15..TOAST CITY HERE WE COME …MARCIA BRADY MOANED IN EXTACY AS SAM REPLIED TO ALICE’I AM NOT SAM I AM A BUTCHER’…QUESTIONS-SURE!.. I PROMISE TO GIVE YOU A DUMB LOOK AND SCRATCH MY HEAD AND MUMBLE SOMETHING THAT NUTHIN TO DO WITH CHECKERS…FRANCO IS STILL DEAD.JEFF CLARK PICKIN AT HIS TOOTIE… CHOKE WAGON-DOGS LOVE IT!…ALWAYS FANCIED BEING A ELECTRICION BUT KEPT BLOWING UP TOASTERS…QUINCY SAYS I AM DETERMINED…..call ASK FOR NU-NU-PORKEY…thanks.

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11 thoughts on “Craigslist Find: V-1 SPEEDIE DELIVERY ROCKET JET VAN!….PARTING OUT

  1. loren

    Rather than a “V1 pulse-jet” that looks like a Rolls-Royce Avon from a French Caravelle, upside-down with a portion of the fuselage still attached. Or, like that. Gosh I’d have loved to hear the real story! Too bad he just hooked us with a few could-have-been facts then went for the weird rant. Still, all cool.

    1. mike catania

      hi guys….mike- from the junkyard here and the guy with the rocket van!….thanks for putting this up!!..love the jet van!….the engine came from a 1961 caravelle that was being junked at the bradley air museum in windsor locks ct…..we cut it up and processed it…we still have the nose of the airplane that is bolted to our front fence gate…the engines were sold to a guy in chicago for some drag car project(?)….as for the bong induced ramblings……..well…working at a junkyard can sometimes cause………..um…….some screwed up ramblings!!……oh…we also beat up the ss minnow too….again-thanks!!!

  2. cyclone03

    Here is the FAA info on the tail number

    Deregistered Aircraft 1 of 1

    Aircraft Description
    Serial Number 88 Certificate Issue Date 08/01/1980
    Manufacturer Name SUD AVIATION Mode S Code (base 8 / oct) 53073702
    Model SE 210 CARAVELLE VIR Mode S Code (base 16 / hex) AC77C2
    Year Manufacturer None Cancel Date 11/23/1983
    Reason for Cancellation Unknown Export To None
    Type Registration Corporation

    Aircraft Registration prior to Deregistration
    Name AIRBORNE EXPESS INC
    Street 145 HUNTER DR
    City WILMINGTON
    State OHIO Zip Code 45177
    County CLINTON
    Country UNITED STATES

    Deregistered Airworthiness
    Engine Manufacturer None Classification Unknown
    Engine Model None Category None
    A/W Date None

    Deregistered Other Owner Names
    PRESCOTT CYRILLA STROBACH GREG
    PHARE WESTON D

  3. Whelk

    “Aircraft Registration prior to Deregistration
    Name AIRBORNE EXPESS INC
    Street 145 HUNTER DR
    City WILMINGTON
    State OHIO Zip Code 45177”

    So the engine at least has been down the Ohio mile at Wilmington, at speed. You could even say it flew!

  4. 38P

    Y’all just think that’s a jet engine . . . It’s really the mega-bong that the stoned, screaming CL ad writer used immediately before posting . . . .

    BTW, the Darwin Award JATO Impala thing has long been proven to be a hoax.

    But at least we know that “Franco is still dead” . . . Marcia Brady “moan[s]” and surfer Jeff Clark allegedly has a thing for his own “tootie”[sic] . . . All hallucinations potentially more useful than a jet-smashed Econoline . . . .

  5. loren

    Great link to that photograph!

    More info on the aircraft:

    N902MW Caravelle 12 (msn. 88) Originally with United Airlines as N1003U; later sold to Sterling Airways as OY-SAH, before returning to the US with Midwest/Airborne Express. Was displayed in Airborne Express livery at the New England Air Museum, Windsor Locks, CT, but scrapped on August 19, 2010. (from Wikipedia)

    An earlier model, (type first flew in 1961, United bought 20 of them) it was probably banned in the nineties from most airports due to low-bypass noisy engines and the photo is from the museum in CT. N901MW apparently still exists and is at the Port Columbus OH airport Fire Dept. (used for training), but our 902 wound up suffering the indignity of going to beer cans and having at least one of it’s engines dropped on top of an old Ford van. Airborne also not around anymore.

  6. john

    French Caravelles were God awful planes. If you were over 5’5″ tall you couldn’t sit in the window seat. Never realized the French were so short.

  7. john

    I just happen to know where this is at. I visit this junkyard every Saturday. And the guy that writes this is pretty funny.

  8. mike catania

    hi guys….mike- from the junkyard here and the guy with the rocket van!….thanks for putting this up!!..love the jet van!….the engine came from a 1961 caravelle that was being junked at the bradley air museum in windsor locks ct…..we cut it up and processed it…we still have the nose of the airplane that is bolted to our front fence gate…the engines were sold to a guy in chicago for some drag car project(?)….as for the bong induced ramblings……..well…working at a junkyard can sometimes cause………..um…….some screwed up ramblings!!…….again-thanks!!!

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