[DeTomaso] Lightning strikes a car

wkooiman at earthlink.net wkooiman at earthlink.net
Wed Mar 4 22:52:45 EST 2009


Wow!  I bet he had to change the MSD after that.

-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark McWhinney <msm at portata.com>
>Sent: Mar 4, 2009 3:40 PM
>To: JDeRyke at aol.com, detomaso at realbig.com
>Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Lightning strikes a car
>
>Looks like fun.  :-)
>
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve6XGKZxYxA
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com] On Behalf Of JDeRyke at aol.com
>Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 12:46 PM
>To: detomaso at realbig.com
>Subject: [DeTomaso] Lightning strikes a car
>
>Ok, it was only an econobox, and the 'lightning' was man made, but its much 
>easier to set up this way than the real thing. Musta been a slow day at Top 
>Gear TV show.....   YouTube link-
> 
> Top Gear: Car Lightning
>
>The idiot inside the car started it up & drove it away after the test. No 
>word on who paid to touch up the roof paint. 
>FWIW, the real thing is much more spectacular. I was in a C-118 transport 150 
>miles off the CA coast one stormy night when we got smacked on an antenna on 
>the lower left side. The strike tipped the large plane up on its right wing 
>while every instrument went crazy. When we landed, most of the side of the 
>aluminum fuselage was rusty as the steel antenna wire vaporized and plated itself. 
>THe poor mechs had to sand the fuselage to fix the damage. I calculated the 
>power required to vaporize 12 feet of 1/4" steel wire and came up with about 
>30,000 horsepower.... FWIW- J Deryke
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