So we have a Dodge Viper racing a Ferrari 355 on a mountain road. The Viper passes the 355, starts to go around a turn, and the brakes lock up. This tends to be one of those things you don’t want to happen, particularly when you’re traveling at high speeds on a road named “Deadman’s Road.”

The Viper (as you may have expected) flies off the side of the cliff, tumbles a time or two, then lands on it’s wheels, nary injuring it’s driver. Not something you see every day. And no, you can’t go use this as an excuse on your wife for a reason to go buy a Viper. “But Hunny, look how safe it is, it fell 100ft off a cliff and the driver was perfectly fine!”

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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.

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The video speaks for itself.

I must say…I never thought you could do some of these things in an old Hyundai.

If you’re looking for the short version of this, just watch up until about 3 minutes into the video. It starts to get monotonous after that.

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