Volkswagen Beetle. Jet engine. Well, why not?

Date July 26, 2006

A gentleman with a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Stanford has created a street-legal Beetle with a jet engine stuffed in the back.

VW Beetle with jet engine

Best line from his erudite and fascinating discussion of this subject:

Jet keeps sucking the rose out of the bud vase on the dash!

And just wait till you see what he wants to do to his wife’s motor scooter.

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2 Responses to “Volkswagen Beetle. Jet engine. Well, why not?”

  1. jcwelch said:

    July 26th, 2006 at 10:19 pm

    The best part is reading the care and expertise applied to this.

  2. Peter Murray said:

    July 27th, 2006 at 7:44 pm

    I read a while ago about someone who fitted a Rolls-Royce engine to a car - possibly an old Rolls-Royce, but I’m not sure.

    The engine originally came from a Spitfire, and the bonnet/hood had to be lengthened quite a bit to accommodate it… this was probably in the 1970s, so I don’t know if it would ever have made it onto the Web.

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