Jet Powered COFFIN inspired Grandpa Munster's Dragula Car in the Children's TV 
Move aside Grandpa Munster, there’s a new coffin car in town – and it’s powered by a jet engine. Oregon inventor Robert Maddox gave the Dragula coffin car - made famous in the 1960s children’s TV show The Munsters - a 21st century facelift by adding two pulse jets. The engine in the Maddoxjets Coffin Car weighs 300lbs and can go from 0 to 60 miles per hour in nine seconds – faster than a Toyota Prius.
Jet Powered COFFIN inspired Grandpa Munster's Dragula Car in the Children's TV
He continued he had been fascinated
by the possibility of creating a coffin car since he was a child: 'I
actually grew up on top of old graveyard hill in Phoenix, Oregon and had
graves right under by bed.Move aside Grandpa Munster, there’s a new coffin car in town – and it’s powered by a jet engine. Oregon inventor Robert Maddox gave the Dragula coffin car - made famous in the 1960s children’s TV show The Munsters - a 21st century facelift by adding two pulse jets. The engine in the Maddoxjets Coffin Car weighs 300lbs and can go from 0 to 60 miles per hour in nine seconds – faster than a Toyota Prius.
Jet Powered COFFIN inspired Grandpa Munster's Dragula Car in the Children's TV
Maddox designed his coffin car after being
inspired by Grandpa Munster's Dragula vehicle, pictured, made famous in
the 1960s children's TV show The Munsters
Jet Powered COFFIN inspired Grandpa Munster's Dragula Car in the Children's TV 
Grandpa Munster, pictured, was played in the TV
show by Al Lewis. The original model of the Dragula, pictured, featured a
350 horsepower, Ford Mustang V8 engine
'The old cemetery was supposed to have been moved to the new cemetery in 1900, but back then if there were no living kin they would just move the head stone not the coffin. When I was little my Dad dug a swimming pool and hit four graves.'
'I always loved The Munsters, Addams Family and Halloween - naturally since I was known as the kid that lived on graveyard hill - and always wanted a coffin car like Grandpa Munster built.'
Maddox's coffin car took a month to build and cost $1,300 (£814).
Jet Powered COFFIN inspired Grandpa Munster's Dragula Car in the Children's TV 
The coffin car can go from 0 to 60 in nine
seconds. Maddox, pictured, said he didn't 'dare' to go faster than,
admitting he had trouble breathing while driving it but added it was
'way fun'
Jet Powered COFFIN inspired Grandpa Munster's Dragula Car in the Children's TV 
The coffin car, pictured here with inventor
Robert Maddox, took a month to build and cost $1,300 (£814). The front
end is a 34 Ford drop axle and the coffin has a five gallon air tank.
The cockpit features three switches; the left-hand switch turns the
spark air on and the other two switches control the fuel
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