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Misguided Missile: The Hungerford Rocket Car

Posted October 20, 2009 12:01 AM by dstrohl

There are people like Daniel and Floyd Hungerford who do things. They don't just sit on the couch and stare at Facebook all day long – they dream up ways to better humanity, and then they build those things, whether those things become successful or not.

In Daniel and Floyd's case, they built a rocket car, called the Shirley Lois Moon Girl, the first-ever such car to be legally licensed for the street. Keith Marvin told the tale of Daniel Hungerford and his rocket car for SIA #55, February 1980.

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Re: Misguided Missile: The Hungerford Rocket Car

10/21/2009 8:16 AM

Re: "Read the whole article"...

Duh ! We just did (above). I saw no links to anything beyond what you copied and pasted here.

And there WAS NO 'Facebook' in 1980 ... or they'd-uh been better off staring at it all day than wasting time on a street legal rocket car.

Explain how such a thing would (quote) Better Humanity (end quote).

Now, with that all said, I'll grant ya this:

It looks like an interesting project to keep some idle hands busy at something constructive instead of destructive --- so long as they live out in the boonies!

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Re: Misguided Missile: The Hungerford Rocket Car

10/26/2009 9:29 AM

There is additional content, Guest. Just need to click the thumbnail image of the page you'd like to see. This launches a .jpg in your browser.

Unfortunately, however, you'll probably never see this comment. Had you registered with the site, you could be notified automatically.

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10/21/2009 11:00 AM

Pursuant to the "Darwin Awards" lore: This reminds me of story about the Village Idiot who foolishly strapped several JATO bottles to the back of his late model Chevy and then preceded to literally fly it off the desert highway and into the side of a mesa cliff several hundred feet above the desert floor.....don't know if that story is web fiction or not, but it is funny as all hell!!!! ROTFLMAOPIMP

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10/21/2009 12:29 PM

The story of the car was recounted in 1980, but it is never explained when the rocket car was actually built. It looks well ahead of its time, based on the rudimentary condition of the photograph. An interesting tidbit of reckless abandon!

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