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!

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.

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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

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!