If you've spent as much time browsing the internet for cool car stuff as I have, you've probably seen this Beetle before. Built in the mid-2000s by Ron Patrick, a mechanical engineer with a Ph.D. from Stanford University, it retains its factory front-wheel-drive internal-combustion motor up front but also sports a General Electric T58-8F turbine engine mounted where the rear seats and trunk would normally be. Well, it's now for sale on Craigslist for the low, low price of $550,000.

Because the car retains its standard drivetrain, it's able to be street registered and driven around like any normal car. Switch on the 300-pound jet engine and you're blessed with an additional 1350 horsepower. Originally designed to power helicopters, it idles at 11,000 rpm, and can spin up to 26,000. It's controlled using a throttle lever mounted next to the car's factory gear selector.

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