If you have an hour to kill, read about this guy's claim to know the origin
of the story...

http://www.bored.com/rocketcar/

TomC
tcarrington@relitech.com
http://www.relitech.com/tomc
http://volksweb.relitech.com
85 Vanagon Crew Cab
82 Westy diesel=>gas conversion
81 Checker A-11 (Taxi)
65 Notchback

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stan Wilder [SMTP:wilden1@JUNO.COM]
> Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2001 3:02 AM
> To:   vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject:      Re: any flux capacitor conversions available?
>
> There was a memo put out the employees at the General Dynamics plant in
> Grand Prairie Texas about two years ago, I'm going to try to repeat as
> best I remember what the memo said.
>
> Recently the authorities discovered a large grey stain on a rock face of
> ,,, Mountain rock face. After further investigation it was discovered
> that the stain was comprised of a 64 Chevrolet and the remaining parts of
> the same vehicle.
> Upon further investigation the authorities discovered that the owner of
> the vehicle had recently attended a US Air force auction and purchased a
> surplus JATO cartridge.
(snip)