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Jet Assisted Chevy

EPISODE TITLE: Pilot 1: Jet-Assisted Chevy, Pop Rocks and Soda

ORIGINAL AIR DATE: 1/23/2003

SYNOPSIS:
The story of the jet-assisted Chevy goes like this. The Arizona Highway Patrol stumbled across a blackened crater in the side of a mountain at the end of a long stretch of desert road. After an investigation, they learned that an Air Force sergeant from a nearby military base had attached a rocket-assisted takeoff unit to the roof of a 1967 Chevy Impala. He got up to about 80 mph, and then fired the things off. Within seconds the car was traveling at 350 mph. The crater was found in the mountainside 100 feet off the ground. Who do you think will be the "dummy" to test this myth?

The Pop Rocks and soda legend concerns a boy known as little Mikey, who was featured in commercials for Life cereal. Some years later, Mikey was challenged by his friends to eat six packs of Pop Rocks candy with six cans of soda. According to the myth, the carbon dioxide in the candy combined with the carbon dioxide in the soda to create so much pressure that Mikey's stomach exploded and he died. Our MythBusters risk their lives for you, the viewer, in these two death-defying experiments.





Myths Features in This Episode

Myth #1: Jet-Assisted Chevy
Can a jet-assisted Chevy hit speeds up to 300 mph (480 km/h) and become airborne?

Myth #2: Pop Rocks and Soda
Will eating Pop Rocks and drinking large quantities soda together cause your stomach to explode?

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i hope the jet car had good mileage

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Dracorll Good episode 0 Aug 30 2007, 11:21 PM EDT by Dracorll
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