[DeTomaso] Lightning strikes a car

[Thomas Tornblom]

wkooiman at earthlink.net skrev:
> Wow!  I bet he had to change the MSD after that.

Had it had an MSD he would no doubt had to change it, but now this was a 
German car, with quality electronics, so he just drove off ;-)

Cheers,
Thomas

> 
> -----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
>>
>>
>>
>> -----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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