Jet School Bus - World Fastest School Bus World Record set by Paul Stender

An American school bus has been transformed into a 367mph flame-throwing dragster.

Its creator Paul Stender replaced the ordinary school bus engine with one from a powerful Phantom fighter jet.

The
flame-painted bus was custom built by Stender and his team at Indy
Boys Inc in Indianapolis, USA, but it won't be getting students to
school in record time as it's only for show.

 Stender's
creation, dubbed 'The School Time Jet-Powered School Bus' fires out 80
foot flames from the back creating massive clouds of smoke.







Stender, 43, said: 'I built the bus for two reasons. The first is to entertain people because, come on, it's a jet bus.





'The second, is to keep kids off drugs. Jets are hot, drugs are not.





'The entire vehicle was custom built by
myself. There's no way the original bus could have withstood the speeds
that I take it to.





'We do a lot of displays at schools and we are trying to show them there's more to life than sitting in front of computers.





'I've got two 10-month old Great Danes myself but they are like kids for me, but I don't think they'd enjoy going on the bus.





'We are based in Indianapolis we are
right down the road from the famous Indy 500 track, but we have shown
the bus in Canada and even South America.'

Stender, whose mechanical skills
are entirely self taught, said he has a passion for making things go
fast.  He said: 'I bought it just as an old school bus, but I have to
say only about five percent are original parts.





'Actually a lot of it is hand-crafted
and the types of metals used would be more at home on an aircraft.
'There's still some bus left on it, a little bit on the front. And of
course the door handle and the door are all original.





'I grew up on a farm and to tell you the truth I always wanted to learn things myself and didn't like school much.





'I guess this is my revenge for all those days riding on the slow journey to school, now it goes at my kind of pace.'





But the jaw-dropping school bus isn't
very fuel efficient as it uses up a whopping 150 gallons of fuel in
just one quarter-mile run.

Paul Stender - World Fastest Jet School Bus World Record 2010 Video