Stinky Car. A pricey car is on the market at a great price. There has to be a catch, doesn't there? Sure there does! This deal stinks - literally! It turns out that someone died in the car and the smell just won't go away. So if this should happen to you, can the smell be cleaned?
As with the Hunt for Hoffa in Buried in Concrete, Daddy Longlegs, Jet Taxi, Adam and Jamie turn to pigs - dead pigs. They get a couple of recently deceased pigs, pack them up in a pretty nice Corvette, and pack it in a shippng container for two months. In the meantime they take some lessons on cleaning up messes from someone who should know - he cleans up crime scenes for a living, and he thinks it should be no problem. But he hasn't seen this scene yet.
After the two months is up, they break open the container and unleash a horrid scene of destruction. The entire interior of the Corvette has to be scrapped, and in the end it won't even start. The guys make a decent stab at cleaning the interior, but in the end, it still stinks. So the proceed directly to selling it. In the end, they do manage to sell it of for parts, and even then they had to drop the price further. Busted. This car couldn't be cleaned, it couldn't be started and though it was sold, it wasn't sold to anyone who wanted to drive the thing.
Raccoon Rocket. Any story that starts off with a bunch of rednecks chasing a raccoon into a culvert is bound to be good, and when you add some gasoline, it's just going to get better. Rumor has it that the redneck in question broke out his lighter, which ignited the gasoline, propelling him some 200 feet out of the pipe.
The first part of the myth was quickly busted, as it wasn't difficult to light the gasoline - but producing an explosive force requires compression, and that just isn't going to happen with an open end at the other side, not to mention the gaps around the unlikely hunter (in other words, Buster).
So our re-creators quickly proceeded to duplicating the results instead, by adding ten pounds of gunpowder and a sabot, which typically fits around a bullet, and provides the necessary gap-closing requirement.
Even so, the explosion was impressive - but produced only a 100-foot arc, so it seems unlikely that a bit of gasoline in the aforementioned culvert would have produced the mythological results. Busted.
You Might Also Be Interested In Reading:
Mythbusters Recap: Buried in Concrete, Daddy Longlegs, Jet Taxi
Hunt for Hoffa. When teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa disappeared, it was rumored he was done in by the mob. One of the resting places that comes up in these tales is Giants Stadium in New Jersey. So Adam and Jamie practice burying pig carcasses in concrete, then seeing...
Mythbusters Recap: Buster Special
This episode takes us through some of the highlights (or lowlights) during the tenure of Buster with the Mythbusters....
Mythbusters Recap: Boom-Lift Catapult
Boom-Lift Catapult. As this myth, goes, apparently someone was using a boom-lift to, uh, lift an engine out of their car when suddenly it snapped, sending them flying over their house and into a tree on the other side - a ride of some 80 to 100 feet....
Mythbusters Recap: Deadly Straw
Straw Through a Palm Tree. If you're out for a stroll during a hurricane - and I'm not saying that would be a good idea - and happen to be looking at a palm tree, might you see a bit of straw get blown so hard that it...
Mythbusters Recap: Jet Pack
Personal Jet Pack. In this episode, Adam and Jamie try to do what many have attempted, but none have been able to accomplish (so far). They have purchased plans off for a personal jet pack. In actuality, it's not really a jet pack - it's a gasoline engine...
Mythbusters Recap: Air Cylinder Rocket
Air Cylinder of Death. In the Jaws Special, the Exploding Scuba Tank segment proved that a scuba tank doesn't really explode so much as they take off like a rocket. So what happens if you purposely shear the valve off of such a tank? Can you make a...