[Reaganesque]

Are you the kind of person who has thought at some point about his or her own car: gee, I wish I could just flip a switch and give my car an extra 1,000 horsepower? Well, take heart campers, such a thing did exist. LOL!

Honestly, I had never heard of Turbonique until I read this story. Too cool by half! For the life of me though, I cannot imagine anyone stupid enough to sit down in a go-kart and taking it to 253mph. LOL! Very, very cool stuff!

Here's a picture of the Rocket Drag Axle equipped 1964 Ford Galaxie 500:

Go here for the video.

[knews_hound]

I saw a match race with a car equipped with one of these at the old Lyons Dragstrip back in the early 70’s.

As the article said, too much wheel spin to be practical for the time.

Impressive as hell to watch however.

Cheers,

knewshound

[Disambiguator]

That looks more like a Chevy Nova or Malibu than a Galaxie.

[bigbob]

Very Cool!

Now all we need is a bunch of gummint subsidies to make “Bio-Thermolene” out of recycled cellphone batteries or something...

[Vigilantcitizen]

Something tells me tork had sumptin to do with this.

[martin_fierro]

Getten sie uber hier.

[Tainan]

More on this from IowaHawk:

The Real ACME:The Glorious Insanity of Turbonique

[Constitution Day]

Thanks for the ping, Marty. I was SO excited to see the Turbonique story on Jalop the other day!

I have been following this since Iowahawk wrote a couple of pieces on the company and his quest to find surviving equipment. Totally bad ass!

Thanks for posting this, too, Reaganesque! I would have posted it, but I was under the weather on Monday.