Originally Posted by cgocifer

I was born and raised in Arizona. This story about the Impala and the rocket motor is completely fabricated and a total urban legend. The AZ highway patrol has no records of any such incident. Oh, by the way, the Mythbusters proved that a rocket car could not fly into the side of a mountain, but that you could strap some rockets to the top of an old, heavy sled of a car and it would speed across the desert just fine!