What do you get when you combine the movie “Chitty Chitty Bang-Bang†with a bottle of Maker’s Mark? Apparently, if you are an old Kentucky boy like 62-year old Mickey Nilsson of Bardstown, a bourbon-powered junk car.
It only took Nilsson six months to create his bourbon-powered junk car. He got the idea when someone came and offered to take an old still off his hands. He didn’t sell, but he wasn’t sure what to do with it either. Then he got the idea to watch the old Disney classic movie, “Chitty Chitty Bang-Bang,†and the rest is history, according to iSpyce.
It really gives readers pause to think that someone rummaging around in their backyard can create a vehicle that runs on a $24 bottle of bourbon (although some would pose that it’s a waste of good liquor) in as little as six months’ worth of tinkering. If a single guy can come up with a car like that in his spare time, just what are all those auto makers doing? With millions poured into automobile design and production each year, why are drivers still gnashing their teeth over rising gas prices?
Maybe what auto makers need is a few creative minds like Mickey Nilsson’s? Or just a good bottle of bourbon?
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#1 by alan is scrapping cars on October 1, 2011 - 7:05 pm
Talk about expensive to run mind the way it’s going over here in the uk it will probably cost that much very soon 2.18 dollars a litre.at the moment.