I recall a pic in an early "Army motors" of an M37 ambulance that had been
jet engined and was used in drag racing - anyone else remember it?
NIGE
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck from Olive-Drab" <cc@olive-drab.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 10:20 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] Darwin award
> The first version of this story that I ever heard was in the 1950's. I
was
> told by a Marine who had served in Korea that someone in his outfit's
motor
> pool had fitted the engine from an observation plane (Piper Cub?) into a
> jeep. They tried it out on an airfield and it went so fast that the
wheels
> left the ground and the jeep shot over into a hanger area. Several
> fatalities, wrecked aircraft, plus numerous courtmartial's were the end of
> the story.
>
> This probably started right after Kitty Hawk.
>
> Chuck
>
> chuck@olive-drab.com
> www.olive-drab.com
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