When I was a kid my dad had me convinced that the tail lights on those Cadillacs were rockets...

Where's Ice Cube when you need him?

Trés Cool

Yes, that is a Caparo T1 police car.

Saabs in Vail.

Interesting fact of the day:

Tokyo Police service have a number of high end "Supercars" within their service. A Mazda RX-7 FD3S, A Toyota Supra, A 300ZX Z32, DR30 Skyline, BNR32/BCNR33/BNR34 Skyline GT-R, an RX-7 FC3S, an NSX, Mitsubishi Evolution (every model), WRX-STi (every model)...

But these are mostly just show…

In case of slow or stopped traffic, light the JATO bottles and burninate your way through?

Mmm, that's fun stuff. Get your fuel in the wrong proportions and it explodes rather than burns. Poisonous? Yup. Corrosive? Oh yes. Dissolves or spontaneously combusts organic material? Check. Made for a bad scene for a Luftwaffe pilot if the Komet rolled on landing and the tank behind the cockpit ruptured, which…

Separated at birth?

"If you aren't fascinated... ...we could ever be friends."

Have you ever heard of Turbonique? They produced axle mounted rockets and other JATO on-a-car-related stuff etc. in the 60s! Sometimes drag racing is rocket science!

This is rage Photoshopping here, mistakes are gonna happen.

"Engineers drove a car through the blast of a propellor, but the quick passage was disadvantageous"

Because strapping a rocket to the side of your car seems like a better idea...

This really is essentially exactly the same thing that I was proposing, just for very different purposes. It's even a hydrogen peroxide motor, which is the same type normally used on spacecraft RCS systems, since that particular fuel doesn't require an ignitor. It is pretty toxic stuff, but those test drivers got to…

Seems to me that back in the day they did all kinds of crazy shit all the time.

Not a Corvair, but it's beeen done with another Chevrolet product.

The trouble I've always had with ten+ speeds is the derailleur always gets hinky after a while and you end up with that annoying middle postion where the bike tries to shift on you when you don't want it to.

Hertz gave me this mess and almost put me over the edge. I wrote an email to CEO Mark Frissora about it and this was the reply I got:

To be honest...I'd keep the "damage". Its good looking, like rubber flames.

Props to the owner for taking it to the edge for sure. I know I'd be doing the same thing; preferably not into a tire wall.

Works with Phillips or flatheads...or probably a dime.