Rocket-Powered Lincoln Fails to Fly

I don’t know what I adore most about this video: the sassy, jovial soundtrack; the stubby, ineffectual wings on the car; the revelation that the driver has broken his back many times before, almost as if it were part of his workaday routine; his pretty banging wife; the slow flutter of disintegrating Detroit iron barely one sixth of the way across its intended jump?

If the dude would have made it across, what was he expecting to happen? That the car would land on all four wheels, axles intact, as he sped off into the sunset? I mean, he had a parachute built-in, so perhaps he thought he’d launch across the river with such force that by the time he got over land he’d still have enough clearance to deploy and float gingerly to the ground.

No matter how you slice it, this is one for the ages.