Green Mamba Jet Car Incident

[SLIDING SIDEWAYS]

Yea i remember him but its been 40 yrs ago that i saw him. I remember the name is what caught my attention to it. Idk all the rest of his story.

[callmez]

RIP Doug Rose. Memories of the Green Mamba headed down Cordova Dragway at full blast are forever, er, "burned" into my memory!!

[Mindwalker]

RIP Doug Rose. Memories of the Green Mamba headed down Cordova Dragway at full blast are forever, er, "burned" into my memory!!

Cool post!

[Krooser]

I hired Maverick Golden to run the LRW at my dirt track...that was cool.

[Cardirt0]

Seen 5 or 6 of them Run but never him. Had 4 of them back in the late 60s at a big Funny car show. One was called the Green Monster

[Mindwalker]

They had him chained to some of their wrecked cars at Sycamore years ago melting them down. Pretty amazing sight when you're a kid. 😀

[dmr37]

They had him chained to some of their wrecked cars at Sycamore years ago melting them down. Pretty amazing sight when you're a kid. 

I saw the same thing at Rockford Speedway

[Driver50x]

I hired Maverick Golden to run the LRW at my dirt track...that was cool.

I saw Bill “Maverick” Golden’s truck in Dan Garlits museum a few years ago.

[Mindwalker]

I saw the same thing at Rockford Speedway

When you're an 8 yr old, in my book, it was pretty cool to see!

[Stefan2k4]

Sorry to hear of this guys passing. Unfortunately I never saw him run. I gotta say though a jet car on a short dirt track sounds kinda scary. Usually they need more room to run and more importantly to get stopped. However, it sounds like in this case it was perhaps a health issue that caused the problem. Anyway, from the description this guy reminds me of "the Golden greek" Chris Karamesines , who is somewhere in the neighborhood of 85+ years old and still driving an 10000+ Hp top fuel dragster.

http://www.foxnews.com/auto/2018/08/20/86-year-old-chris-karamesines-sets-nhra-record-with-305-mph-run.html

Gotta admire guys like this. I'm sure his family is heart broken but at least you can say, he lived his life to the fullest until the very end.

As for Jet vehicles, the most impressive I've seen has to be Bob Motz Jet truck. I saw him run numerous times at Rockingham dragway, back when the IHRA used to run there. He always put on a pretty impressive show with lots of "shock and awe". The afterburner pops would visibly shake the windows in the tower and he would flood the afterburner with fuel to create lots of fire and smoke. If I'm not mistaken his truck had one of the larger Jet engines, a J79 General Electric from a B-58 Bomber.

https://youtu.be/pC8huv7gO-s