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eBay find of the day: Bradley GT powered by a jet engine

Let's get this straight right off the bat: this is not a green car. But, since we've shown you Jay Leno's EcoJet, we thought that you might like to take a look at something along those same lines... only much, much cheaper! Like Leno's EcoJet, which is based on the underpinnings of a modern Corvette, the Bradley GT is a kit car based on the running gear of the ubiquitous Volkswagen Beetle. In the case of this one on eBay, though, that original air-cooled horizontally-opposed four cylinder is no longer present. In its place happens to be a jet ... Read more →

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Hmmm... I wonder what we could mount this jet engine to... Jeremy Korzeniewski

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