A guy in California, Ron Patrick, has created a jet-powered Volkswagen Beetle that is street-legal.  Apparently there aren’t any rules in California’s book against this.  The police have pulled him over numerous times but found nothing to charge him with.  Technically the car even qualifies as a hybrid since it has two engines.  The jet engine adds 1350 horsepower to his car.  He’s got quite a few pictures, which you should check out.

At the bottom of the page he shows a jet-powered scooter he is making.  I don’t think it’s so good an idea… I could see someone losing control of that pretty easily…

Nonetheless, you have to give this guy credit for pulling off something most of us (guys) would like to do…  I imagine most of us (guys) have watched Batman and dreamed of how cool it would be to have a jet-powered car.