Jen Heitman, 38, a school administrator’s assistant, on the Rocket Car, as told to A.J. Baime. The Rocket Car is a known thing in Cleveland, where I live. The story starts with my dad, Ron Heitman. He ...
It's not uncommon to see some sort of jet engine on a car in cinema. Just about every iteration of the Batmobile has had a jet engine with an afterburner attached, giving it a boost when necessary, ...
You meet the Oldsmobile Rocket 88 at a turning point, when American cars were just starting to trade postwar restraint for raw attitude. Slip a hot new V8 into a relatively light body and you get a ...
Dreamed up by Charles D. Thomas as part of his GM Institute of Technology graduate program in 1935, the Thomas Rocket Car (circa 1938) was “wise beyond its years with technologies that were decades ...
Carl H. Renner painted this “Escacar” for General Motors in 1945. The Escacar is described as a “Unicycle Gyroscopic Rocket Car.” Like the painting of a commuter helicopter we looked at a few months ...
BUFFALO — The Thomas Rocket Car is now on display where people can go to see it — at the Buffalo Transportation Pierce-Arrow Museum. “Now the car will reside with its contemporaries: Pierce Arrows, ...
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