Rocket man...

[John Cornforth]

Looks worthy of Wesley Pegden in "Last of the Summer Wine" !

[Mike Costigan]

I wonder what the DVLA will make of that...

I think the car is in NZ, Mike.

Don't they have even tougher qualifying requirements?

[Ruairidh Dunford]

Clearly not!!!

[Spex]

No tailgaters

[Rick F]

Pulse jet? I thought they depended on a minimum forward speed to work? The first set of traffic lights should prove interesting.

[Tony Griffiths]

No rear dampers. The ride should be interesting, especially beyond 100 m.p.h.

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You need Facebook to see the fire-up video. One hopes that the engineering is better than the camera work. To give the builder his due: "The build was on my bucket list to complete before I am 90. I have restored/rebuilt as an amateur almost 100 vehicles since the mid 1950s, including 5 tanks (English, German, French and Russian). This was the first attempt at starting the pulse-jet, about half an hour before the film of the engine running. I was being too cautious with the gas flow and it did not auto-start."

 "https://www.facebook.com/1329886206/videos/pcb.3009555892682116/6014766315236816

[Malcolm Parker]

It needs a catapult to launch it, similar to the V1 system, or alternatively, some solid fuel rocket boosters.   For safety reasons I would recommend some chicken wire around the jet engines!

[John H]

A pulse-jet shouldn't need any forward air flow. The one I saw was static/stationary.

[Alan]

There was a guy called Barry Bowles who built a hydrogen peroxide jet car for a LSR attempt in the 1970s. He actually held the British record for a while until Richard Noble did it properly. He turned up at the start of the 1978 Chris Gould record attempt. I gave him a drive of my special, which he thought more frightening than his record car.

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It’s a ram jet that needs forward velocity. A pulse jet is different- they will work standing still.

[Chris Garner]

Hopefully not, but it could feature for a Darwin Award!