The story was also debunked in 2003 on the pilot episode of MythBusters, titled ' Jet Assisted Chevy'. In 1996, after numerous inquires, the Arizona Department of Public Safety issued a news release posted on their website concerning the story.
It was originally circulated as a forwarded email.
The account of the JATO Rocket Car was one of the original Darwin Awards winners: a man who supposedly met his death in a spectacular manner after mounting a JATO unit (a rocket engine used to help heavy aircraft to take off) onto an ordinary automobile.
