Ned Simmons wrote:

C-130 with JATO takeoff:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLFB7q8tyd8

There's an old UL about some guys who attached a JATO bottle to a car,
and splatted themselves into a mountainside.

This guy claims to be 99 percent sure he made it up in 1978; I'm 100
percent sure he didn't, because I first heard it in 1969.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.08/rocketcar.html
;-)

Cheers!
Rich