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, ...

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.

Times file (2006)\uFEFF Doug Rose, seen here behind the wheel of his Green Mamba jet car, died Friday when it crashed during an exhibition event at the Norway Speedway in Michigan, authorities said.

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 ...

On July 4, 1966, Doug Rose was driving a jet-powered car named the Green Monster on the opening weekend of a new drag strip in Virginia. The track was damp, but Rose tried it anyway. The Green Mons… ...