We’re not quite sure where to start with this one. Maybe we’ll take a shot at the TV reporter for saying the car will be going to the “boon-ville” salt flats, or maybe at the owner of the car who thinks a 1939 Ford can be shoved along at 300 mph by a turbine that looks like it would power a toy boat. There are lots of options here.
In theory, yeah, we’re into the idea of a jet engine in the trunk of a street rod. It beats the crap out of a small-block under the hood, but all the fun goes out of the balloon when the owner starts making outlandish claims about performance.
An unnamed hot rod shop in Bryan, Texas, did the install on the engine for Joe Wilkins in Navasota. We’re guessing there was some paperwork signed off on by the owner of the car, so when he gets a wild hair across his bum and hits the go button on the turbine and ends up in a smoking pile of ruin they aren’t responsible.
This is the Darwin Award story come to life. Click here to read the brief story and see the video.
