At about 7:15 p.m., Rose was taking his Green Mamba jet car around the track, just after the national anthem, when something went wrong. There was, as usual, lots of smoke and fire, ...

Doug Rose called the Green Mamba his life and livelihood. Rose built the jet engine-powered drag racer from scratch, and for decades, including years spent in Tampa, the fire-breathing machine ...

But he came back to driving with prosthetic legs that year, built the Green Mamba with a Navy jet fighter engine and started touring the country. Rose said the car could go 300 mph on a long ...

Drag racing showman Doug Rose, 80, died on Friday when he crashed his famous jet-powered Green Mamba car at Michigan’s Norway Speedway.

The car was created by Doug Rose, who started driving jet-powered vehicles back in the 1960s. The Green Mamba Jet Car is a car powered by an engine from a Navy fighter jet.

NORWAY, MI - A veteran drag racer who spent decades entertaining crowds died in a crash Friday at the Norway Speedway track in the Upper Peninsula. Doug Rose, 80, of Ring Town, Pa., died when his ...

NORWAY, Mich. (AP) -- Authorities say a longtime drag racer died after crashing his jet engine-powered car at a track in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The Iron Mountain Daily News and WLUC-TV report ...