$250K Buys a lot of Fahrvergnügen

Oh, boy, and I thought $85K was way too much for a Volkswagen .. was I wrong! Apparently you can spend $250K to get your very personal Fahrvergnügen (not to be confused with this)

That’s how much Ron Patrick, owner of Sunnyvale, CA Engine Control and Monitoring spent to build his jet-propelled VW bug. “The purpose of this car is to have fun and be stupid,” he says with a laugh. “This is entertainment. It’s a toy, a toy for silly boys.”

The Flying (well, almost) Bug is street-legal, but he cannot fire up the jet… although “Patrick says that once in a while he puts on a crash helmet (mainly as a sound muffler), takes the car out on nearby Highway 237 in the wee hours of the morning and fires it up for a brief and hopefully cop-free run.”

His next project: digging up his garden to build a missile silo. Can you spell Nucular Proliferation? He has already purchased an SA-2 for a thousand bucks at an abandoned Polish air base and is now trying to get it cleared through Customs. Good luck with that.

(source: SF Chronicle)

Update (5/9): See Matt Marshall’s post on the X1.