Jack Nicholson Praises Hydrogen Car … In … 1978?!

Wow, this is just stupendously weird.

In a video from CBC (that’s from Canada) Jack Nicholson sings the prises of hydrogen fuel and demonstrates it in a converted Chevy.

From 1978.

Besides the whole time machine feeling I get from watching this (is it now? am I staring into the past? did somebody put something in my drink?) there’s a bunch of things that spring to mind.

First off, no matter how weird Jack Nicholson looks now, he will look weirder the next time you see him.

Second, watching Jack take a HUGE hit off the tailpipe was the funniest car-related thing I’ve seen in weeks.

Next, their hydrogen delivery method worried me – the implication was the engineers were pumping raw hydrogen gas into the engine via a carb. Will that work? I mean, will that work safely?

I’d like to place this whole episode into a modern context … somehow work it into global warming and greenhouse gasses and energy independence, but I just can’t.

Somewhere between the Canadian accents and Jack, I get too confused.

Watch the vid after the jump for yourself.

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