What's the first thing most people do when they buy a new car? Sit and smell the new car smell? Drive around and show it off to friends? If you're Ron Patrick and you're building a Street-Legal Jet Powered VW Beetle, "The first thing I did when I got the car was to cut the hole in the back for the engine."
Ron claims the car is street legal in California, and says he built it "because I wanted the wildest street-legal ride possible" and "to use some stuff I learned while getting my fancy engineering degree (I have a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University)."
His next project is to add twin jet engines to his wife's Honda Metropolitan scooter.
Via Neatorama
