JATO Chevy (NAC) was: MORE POWER

[Douglas Frank]

Brett Dikeman wrote:
> 
> http://www.urbanlegends.com/afu.faq/listing.cgi?selection=wild
> 
> About 1/3 of the way down.

SOMEWHERE on the net I read a *long* story by one of the men
(kids at the time) who believes he is responsible for this
story.  I can't take the time to search, but the details (as I
recall) were:

1. kid's father owned a scrapyard, frequently bid on surplus
military stuff

2. JATO bottles arrived after winning a bid for "miscellaneous"
stuff (try THAT on ebay!)

3. Kid & friends weld JATO bottle to junker car

4. car mounted on salvaged narrow-gauge railroad wheel trucks
(the kind used in mines)

5. rocketmobile towed to abandoned mine, tracks to mine entrance
(still intact) cleared of drifted sand

6. light fuze, run like hell

7. car launches, runs a few hundred yards, leaves tracks, embeds
self into hillside next to mine entrance

FWIW, which ain't much
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