Rocket Car!

Volkswagen: check. Stanford PhD in, like, science and stuff: check. Absurdly over-sized rocket engine: check.

This guy is great. It makes me hopeful for our future of crazy, outside-the-box engineering, because people are still out there doing bizarre yet progressive projects that are completely off the wall, yet not entirely useless. I just want to know if I can get one of those installed on a delorean. And then, the hover-boards.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/04/30/MNGJGII7BB1.DTL&type=printable