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Old Aug 12, 2005 | 02:39 AM
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Why not?

The only thing I was thinking when looking at this car on ebay:
Item #: 4561280339

Why not???
 

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Old Aug 12, 2005 | 01:43 PM
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That thing puts a new meaning to "Rice Burner".
 
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Old Aug 12, 2005 | 02:01 PM
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Why do I think it's an exercise in Photoshop?
 
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Old Aug 12, 2005 | 07:13 PM
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If it is, it has to be the most impressive effort I have ever seen.
bar none.
 
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Old Aug 12, 2005 | 07:14 PM
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It seems like a scam to me...

Whos jet-car only goes 170? lol.
 
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Old Aug 12, 2005 | 08:09 PM
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Looks like something off of Back to the furture. The tires are only rated at 170 mph
 
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Old Aug 12, 2005 | 09:33 PM
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That's ugly.
 
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Old Aug 12, 2005 | 10:02 PM
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Man, that has to be the dumbest idea for vehicle I've ever seen
 
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Old Aug 13, 2005 | 08:39 AM
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To be honest, it may be an edited pic. I just thought of this...where's the air intake? The front of the jets is right against the passenger cabin, no room to ingest air!
 
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Old Aug 13, 2005 | 01:35 PM
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I would put my money on it being an edited pic. Those engines produce over 1000 hp each. With that kind of power you would think it would go faster then 170 mph.


"To be honest, it may be an edited pic. I just thought of this...where's the air intake? The front of the jets is right against the passenger cabin, no room to ingest air! "

It only makes sense that to produce thrust my a jet engine it would have to a have an intake and a large one at that
 
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Old Aug 13, 2005 | 05:17 PM
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it is edited photoshop pictures, and not very good ones at that. if you look at the pic of the motors, you can see where he overlayed the twin turbine photo on the car photo. there is pieces of the rear hatch lid that are on crazy lines that do not show up in the photo of the rear top of the car with the rear hatch on. in that pic, all the lines are as they should be, straight down, not like in the other pic.
 
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Old Aug 13, 2005 | 05:31 PM
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Well, someone is 20k poorer.
 
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Old Aug 13, 2005 | 06:12 PM
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Who would buy something like that on ebay anyway? Duh.
 
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Old Aug 13, 2005 | 06:19 PM
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Originally Posted by MustangGT221
Who would buy something like that on ebay anyway? Duh.
This isn't that off the wall, this is E-bay, plenty of weird stuff.
 
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Old Aug 13, 2005 | 08:26 PM
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I'd say it looks like it was really done, but the size of the tanks leads me to believe it's only got a running time of about ten minutes, much less if it's being run wide open. The engines have intake guards on them, the inlet itself is actually about a foot back from the bulkhead.
I don't think that rollcage is NHRA certified, though.
 
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