__My Top 10 real, true, honest-to-God - or this-is-the-way-I-heard it (and where-I-heard-it) - versions of the rocket car story emailed to me since I posted my version on the Web: __
The ride of the rocket car ...
10. ... took place sometime prior to 1967, somewhere near Fort Gordon, an Army post in Georgia.
9. ... originated in the '50s and '60s, when race car driver and designer Andy Granatelli toured the state-fair circuit in a JATO-powered car.
8. ... involved a green Plymouth Roadrunner that crashed into one of the walls alongside the Hassayampa River about a mile north of Morristown, Arizona.
7. ... involved a Model T Ford that someone attached a rocket to, then fired in the Mojave Desert.
6. ... evolved from an advertising stunt staged by Chrysler in 1970, in which a car was fitted with rockets to demonstrate the amazing power of the featured car's brakes.
5. ... took place in the late '70s, when a pair of USAF mechanics in Oregon stuck an F-16 engine on the back of a Ford Pinto.
4. ... was really about a Plymouth station wagon fitted with an outdated ICBM engine near Fort Hood, Texas.
3. ... happened late one night in the '40s or early '50s, when someone mounted a JATO bottle in the trunk of a Buick, took it out to US 50 (just west of Kansas City, Kansas), and ended up wrapped around an oak tree.
2. ... took place in 1975 on the Pacific Coast Highway.
1. ... was actually a rumor that began after a Lincoln Town Car crashed while trying to set a world's record for the longest automobile jump.
