A Fast VW

[Gerry Mac]

I would not condone driving an import but............

 

[Travis Munday]

Kinda cool, but that's guy's smugness of his "wildest street legal ride possible" is a bit too much.

 

[Deleted deleted]

Kudos to the guy on his engineering abilities. Very nicely done job!

 

[JohnnyB]

After building that I thnk he is allowed to be a little smug.

 

[Area 51]

I like his comment on it being a "hybrid".



Saying that around the wrong crowd might get him lynched.

 

[Travis Munday]

Granted, the engineering behind it is amazing, however his claim that he is the first is far from true.



With a quick Google of "jet powered car", you'll find that in 1982 someone made a <a href="http://www.serve.com/mahood/lazar/jetcar.htm" target="top">Jet-powered Honda</a>.



Irks me how someone of obvious intelligence and familiar with acedemic procedure would make such a claim without even a little fact-checking.



Oh, and his cheap shots at the aftermarket community as a whole really isn't needed.

 

[Dre L]

to design a street-legal jet car without the distraction of how other people have done it in the past - because no one has.

Are you serious? Really, are you serious? You're complaining of his lack of research and that's what you come up with? You mean the guy in the link below that built the jet powered honda? That's your rebuttal?



Yes he can be smug, there's a functional jet in the back of his car.



And the cheap shots are not at the entire aftermarket community, just at the so-called "Hot Rod" parts that are more bling that performance. We all know they're out there.

 

[Travis Munday]

Yes. I am. Are you?



You think he's the first guy to have a jet-powered car? Or bike? Or anything other then a flying machine?



He certinally thinks so.



All I'm saying is that it's ironic that a PhD would make an outrageous claim and not have any proof.



I think he's just pissed off because he's not getting the coverage he think he deserves (you know, having the first jet-powered car in all). His car isn't the wildest street legal machine out there, it's not the first jet-powered non-flyer out there, but he wants the glory of it all.

 

[TRACket Paul]

Tiger, you seem to be a little sensitive about this man and his project. He probably is the first to have a jet in a New Beetle. The guy is an incredibly brilliant and ambitious person. He built it in his garage with his own money. I think he was simply very proud of his work, and rightfully so. Just as you might be if you were to achieve a similar goal.

 

[Travis Munday]

I"m not trying to take anything away from the work involved, as it is impressive; the guy just seems bitter that he isn't getting the attention that he thinks he derserves. The irony is also quite astonding to me.

 

[Dre L]

I don't know, when I google "street legal" "jet car" I get 3 pages worth of this guy's VW, and a bunch of iffy pages after that, such as: "I wonder if it's street legal, LOL."



When I google Bob Lazar, I get someone who seems about as credible as George Dubya Bush, wait, I take that back, I believe more in President Bush the sequel than I do that guy.

The Jet-car: On June 27, 1982, Lazar and his wife Carol had moved to Los Alomos and in the local newspaper Los Alomos Monitor there was a big article about Robert Lazar and his "Honda Jet-Car" and the article (front page) stated that Lazar was "...a physicist at the Los Alomos Meson Physics Facility". Lazar gained much media attention with this jet-car and he stated that it could be driven over 200 mph on a low amount of fuel. Lazar also say that he tested this car at a dry bedlake outside Los Angeles. Groom lake / Area 51 is a dry bedlake outside Los Angeles, a coincidence?

[Broken External Image]:

In 1984 Lazar borrows $4,000 from his mother and according to the OMNI-Magazine (April issue 1994) in 1985 he buys a a Brothel called "the Reno Brothel" while "on vacation in Nevada" This brothel, which he owned with his wife and renamed "Honeymoon Suckle", was so profitable that he didn't have to return to full time employment for a while. In his bankruptcy papers filed in 1986 there's no mention of any aincome of this brothel, but the file says that he hadn't payed back the money he owned his mother. Instead he had bought a Chevrolet Corvette for $19,000... The year before (1985) he also borrowed a number of other sums like:



$15,000 from his father and repaid only $1,000 by the time of bankruptcy filing.



$60,000 from Los Alomos National Bank which he secured wuth his $7,9000 worth Honda. He only repaid $1,300 by the time of bankruptcy filing.



$12,000 from the same bank to build his new photo processing business. He only repaid $300 by the time of bankruptcy filing.



$5,000 via a "three minute loan" from Security Pacific Finance Corp. of Albaquerque, New Mexico.



$2,000 from John Horne of Los Alomos for downpayment on a jet car that wasn't repaid at the time of bankruptcy filing.



During this his wife buys a new residence in Las Vegas while Robert stayed remained in Los Alomos. Lazar remarried with Tracy Ann Murk, but he was appearantly still married to Carol as no divorce papers were filed. On April 21 Carol commited suicide by carbon monixide poisioning as she inhalated motor vehicle exhaust. After this Lazar moves to Carols house on Ann Greta Street and he takes over her photographic processesing-firm which he loses in the liquidation-bankruptcy which he voulentarily filed on July 21, 1986. In these files there's no mention of his employment at Los Alomos National Laboratory and he stated that his income was "unknown" and his only income was from the photgraphic process-company. He also stated that $15,000 had vanished with his accountant. He also stated that his monthly expenses was $15,510 of which he only managed to pinpoint $2,360, the rest he never specified. On October 12 he re-marries Tracy, she goes with another name (Jackie Dianne Evans) and the reason to that is still unknown. They marry at the "Chapel of Love" in Las Vegas. The certificate was send to the Ann Great adress.



On March 16, 1988, Lazar loses his house as he can't pay the bills and his wife buys a house of her own (they divorced on paper in 1989).

It's about this timeperiod Robert "Bob" Lazar meets John Lear and his employment at Area-51 begins (according to him). In May 1989 he goes public at George Knapps TV-station "KLAS-TV"...

But go ahead, read it:

 

[Nelson Atwell]

His site says this jet engine draws air at 11,000 CFM. I don't think that much air could be sucked in through the side windows without creating a vacuum that would suck the drivers eyeballs out of his head.

 

[Mike Wilson]

My one thought, about the technical stuff, agrees with NelsonOKC, since I know

SQUAT about jet engines: If you have an old big-block ford or chevy with, say two,

750 CFM Dual-Feed Double Pumpers on the intake, doesn't that equal 1,500 CFM ?

And I thought my old big block 454 Chevelle was going to suck the hood right down

through the carburetors when I floorboarded it! I would think that much airflow would

pull enough air from the surrounding area (eyeballs included!) to turn that car into a

Black Hole and make it collapse in on itself!

This guy has to be the smartest Son-of-a Biscuit-Eater on the planet, or needs to win a

Grammy, or something, for Photo-Chop Editing. Either way, he has a career somewhere!!!

:blink::blink::blink:

 

[mookie]

From Tiger:

...the guy just seems bitter that he isn't getting the attention that he thinks he derserves.

He didn't seem bitter to me; I thought he was more astounded that a promoter thought he needed custom wheels and decals to spice it up a bit! Like having a jet engine sticking out of the back wasn't enough!:lol:



And the builder stated, "The car was built because I wanted the wildest street-legal ride possible." If that's his idea of wild, I think he's on the right track! I think it is definitely one of the wildest street-legal rides that if seen.



Tiger:

His car isn't the wildest street legal machine out there

I love looking at things like this. Do you have any pics of other "wild machines"?

 

[Travis Munday]

Nah, I don't need prove, saying it is good enough.

 

[mookie]

Hmmm...I wasn't asking you to "prove" anything; I just like looking at things like this. That's why a coupla months ago I asked how your Ranchero project was coming along; just curious that's all....

 

[Travis Munday]

One car I was looking for, but couldn't find pics of, was an Eclipse from eBay a while back...strange body extensions, fins, wings, spoilers, gadgets and do-dads abound. Wild, but in a bad way.

 

[mookie]

Wild, but in a bad way.

:lol:LOL! I guess I've seen "wild" cars like that, but the term wild to me means good engineering or imagination.