Mad Science: Turbine T-Bucket

If you've got a Ford T-Bucket and a Boeing turbine laying around in your garage, I guess this match on this car makes sense, sort of. Remember, it's a long cold winter in Three Rivers, Michigan, where this evil bay seller is from. The '32 Ford is sporting Boeing 502-B3, which the seller says likely came out of a mine sweeper. And if that isn't crazy enough for you, check out how you pilot this thing.
The seller gives a full description of how he matched up the turbine to a cyclic stick from a Bell helicopter.So the beast drives like a copter -- push the stick forward for drive, back for reverse, and left and right to corner. Throttles are from Lear jet. Despite all the gadgetry, the '32 tops out at a turtling 60 mph, which must be scary as hell with a hand of the joystick. Legal? Maybe on the Jetsons.With 15 hours to go on in the auction on Sunday evening, the Ford copter had not met the starting bid of $10,900. Boeing turbines are getting pricey, the seller notes. Seller says he'll drive it to the winning sellers home for $2 a mile and a few cheeseburgers. "Once you take it, it's yours," he writes. "No guarantees." If the $10,000 starting price is too rich for you, the seller is also willing to trade; he's looking for something with a hydrogen fuel cell.