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Street Legal Jet Powered VW Beetle


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I'd have to think a short wheelbase car like that isn't exactly the best platform for a jet-engine.

 

And similar stuff has been done before, and posted on here no less. So that guy can stop claiming he is the first; perhaps the first w/ a New Beetle, and for good reason!

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Jet engines don't use gearboxes, it's just the thrust of the gasses moving the car/plane/helicopter.

True this car uses thrust from the engine, but he could run a transmission of the accessory drive box like the chrysler turbine cars in the 50's and 60's. Oh and helicopters and tanks do the same thing.

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True, but Lustalbert was asking about this car. Those Chrysler Turbine cars are pretty sweet, though.

I understand that I was just pointing this out. Also I picked up a mopar magazine last year sometime and discovered that they had more than just the turbine cars that everyone pictures when they think of chrysler turbine cars. They even had a large U-haul size truck that if I remember right used 2 turbines.

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