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I'm pretty sure it's only street legal while the jet engine is turned off. Then you're just transporting a jet engine on the back of a Beetle, right?

• rococode 6y ago
  That's what I thought too, but then the post says "That said, I do enjoy the occasional blast down the highway." and suddenly I'm not so sure...
  • oedoedxef 6y ago
    I've also seen a mini-cooper on youtube with a jet in the back doing the same thing on the highway :)
    • soperj 6y ago
      It might be cool from an engineering perspective, but it's fucking stupid from a "there are other people on the road who's lives are now in danger" perspective.
      • markkanof 6y ago
        Maybe. There are certainly places where you can find long straight runs of highway with no on ramps. Do that in the middle of the night and you are unlikely to encounter another vehicle.
        • soperj 6y ago
          Go to a racetrack. Unlikely isn't good enough.
  • tempestn 6y ago
    I'm sure that's not legal, but then, neither are more conventional blasts down the highway.
  • trhway 6y ago
    >the occasional blast down the highway if he were to install the engine into the vertical position, he could have enjoyed occasional blast _over_ highway as the thrust of this engine (even without adding turbofan) seems to be just about enough to lift a stripped down VW Beetle.
• 0_____0 6y ago
  i mean.... where's the law that says that it's _illegal_?
  • extrapickles 6y ago
    Noise ordinances would be the easiest way it would be illegal, then hazard zone produced by the jet exhaust is not marked as that zone likely falls under same regulations as carrying a pole or other cargo that extends out back of the vehicle.