With fuel prices rising like they are going crazy, a man from Kentucky probably came up with what is thought to be a solution to gas prices of today. A 62 year-old man, Mickey Nilsson, of Bardstown, Kentucky, made a bourbon-powered junk car. He got the idea from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (a movie from 1968 directed by Ken Hughes and staring Dick Van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes, Lionel Jeffries and Benny Hill) and the stars of American Pickers. Nilsson said that his inspiration came from a character played by Dick Van Dyke in the classic Disney movie. The character in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang assembled a flying car from junk parts.This does not get the Borepatch seal of approval, even if the car in question does look sort of cool, in a Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang sort of way:
And because it is obligatory:
You forgot to mention the original story was penned by Ian Fleming, of James Bond fame!
ReplyDeleteAnd, what a waste of fine (or otherwise) liquor! gfa
Dude, I'd take that car if I had to shovel my money directly into the boiler powering it. That looks cool.
ReplyDeleteSean
Darnit, boss, now I'll have that song stuck in my head all evening.
ReplyDeleteBest. Title. EVAH.
ReplyDeleteoh thanks Dave, if you hadn't mentioned it, it wouldn't be stuck in my head now. It's almost as bad as "It's a small world after all...", hah take that.
ReplyDeleteSo this begs the question: Why does this fine specimen of a vehicle not get the BP seal of approval?
+1 on the post title.
ReplyDeleteI'm surprised that Chitty Chitty Bang Bang hasn't been remade in an African-American version yet, รก la Doctor Doolittle. Gotta keep Eddie Murphy employed, after all.
BP,
ReplyDeleteBack in the 60's Chrysler experimented with turbine powered cars. It could be fueled by any flammable liquid. They took one down to Mexico and the then Mex-Prez ran the damned thing on Tequila !!!
Brad
OK, so he's fighting high gas prices by pouring $90 a gallon bourbon in the tank? Methinks 'taint the only place he's been pouring it!
ReplyDeleteAnd thanks kx59, it takes nanoseconds for the mention of small world to infiltrate the folds of my brain smatter!
kx59, it loses the seal of approval because it's a waste of good bourbon.
ReplyDeleteI believe it was Spider Robinson who wrote that, when you die, you are dunked head first into a barrel of all the alcohol you ever spilled or wasted. If you drown, to Hell with you. I think this guy's barrel will be overflowing.
ReplyDeleteThat's one heck of a way to turn food into fuel. And yes, this transplant to Kentucky considers bourbon a food group.
ReplyDeletewell certainly he's not running
ReplyDeleteHirsch Reserve through it. The Harrah!