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Title: Future Darwin candidate, but with style
Post by: fightingquaker13 on August 05, 2010, 03:06:37 PM

I give you the 350mph school bus. :o
I particularly like his belief that this will help keep kids off drugs. I imagine the lecture goes like this. "See, this is the kind of crazy ass sh!t I can come up with while sober. Now, imagine what I would do if I were stoned?" ;D
FQ13


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/news/7927775/Motoring-enthusiast-builds-367mph-bus.html

Title: Re: Future Darwin candidate, but with style
Post by: sledgemeister on August 05, 2010, 03:22:20 PM

hehe sounds like a quick trip some where, be fun till ya come to a corner

Title: Re: Future Darwin candidate, but with style
Post by: billt on August 05, 2010, 03:41:42 PM

I wonder how he keeps the windshield in the thing?  Bill T.

Title: Re: Future Darwin candidate, but with style
Post by: Texas_Bryan on August 05, 2010, 03:49:25 PM

There's a kind of crazy I can endorse!!!

'Stay off drugs kids, and one day, you too can Frankenstein a jet to various land based vehicles...'

Title: Re: Future Darwin candidate, but with style
Post by: twyacht on August 05, 2010, 05:01:55 PM

Must have went to Acme for the Phantom Motor,... ::) Love it...! ;D

Knew a kid back in the day, wanted to put a jet engine in a 1975 Cadillac Hearse. Call it "Deadly Fast" or something,..... I wonder if that's the same guy.... :o

Title: Re: Future Darwin candidate, but with style
Post by: ratcatcher55 on August 05, 2010, 05:33:59 PM

I told the guys I worked with I want a 400 MPH Ice Cream truck.

Let's see the fat little bastards catch Mr. Softie now!

Title: Re: Future Darwin candidate, but with style
Post by: alfsauve on August 05, 2010, 08:37:57 PM

Great little show.  He appears careful to control the throttle and you'll notice that when he's serious about speed there isn't much visible exhaust.   All that smoke and flame is the foreplay to the finale....the fast run. 

Not sure how often he attempts the 300+mph, but I'd guess he regularly hit 200 at most shows.   The rear wheels seem much further back than on a normal chassis, too. 

Title: Re: Future Darwin candidate, but with style
Post by: tombogan03884 on August 05, 2010, 11:55:16 PM

That ought to keep the little delinquents in their seats  ;D

Title: Re: Future Darwin candidate, but with style
Post by: sledgemeister on August 06, 2010, 02:49:17 AM

Quote from: tombogan03884 on August 05, 2010, 11:55:16 PM

That ought to keep the little delinquents in their seats  ;D

I think the little delinquents would end up at the back of the bus sorta looking out like this

(http://us.123rf.com/400wm/400/400/alanpoulson/alanpoulson0904/alanpoulson090400002/4625620.jpg)