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John Derbyshire on The Corner today recounts an episode where him and some buddies are sitting around a fire and decide to see if a fire can melt a beer bottle. His wife comes out and sees it and has a reaction other than studied fascination. Some of the follow up e-mails he received talked about some guys who designed a slingshot to shoot a buick and John's follow up to that was now let us see about melting a buick.

Hehehe, I have never been to it, but many of my friends from the Appleton Area have been and that is Wisconsin International Raceway's The Eve of Destruction. They have a bunch of wacky races (figure 8 trailer races, school bus races, backward races, etc) and that at the end of the night they pile the car wrecks up and well, click on the links to find out what happens to the wrecks!

Anyway here are the notes

The original:

John,

Wisconsin International Raceway does something like that every fall. Its called the Eve of Destruction and after a night of wacky races they pile up a bunch of cars and melt them See: http://www.pbase.com/aprince/image/49468368

ttyl
MA

Here is what John put up:

Melting Buicks [John Derbyshire]

The men of Wisconsin come through:

John—Wisconsin International Raceway does something like that every fall. Its called the Eve of Destruction and after a night of wacky races they pile up a bunch of cars and melt them See ">here.

[Me] That's an awesome picture. So long as we can produce events like this, America is OK.

11/12 03:13 PM

Source: The Corner – Melting Buicks (John Derbyshire)