Steve Green’s red machine started life as a $300,000 Baja racing truck. Add $250,000 in new parts and advanced technology and you’ve got what may be the first vehicle built specifically to drive into a tornado.
What?!!!
The TA-1’s safety systems are borrowed from the Nascar track. The driver wears a race fire suit, crash helmet, and neck brace. He sits inside a chromoly roll cage, buckled into a six-point harness on a molded, crush-resistant seat. The nylon webbing helps prevent a severed spinal cord in the event of traumatic deceleration.
Really???
Thrill-seeker Steve Green wants to drive into the eye of a twister. ~ To most storm chasers, driving up Mother Nature’s [backside] sounds a bit extreme – extremely disrespectful, extremely reckless, and extremely technically impossible. Green doesn’t care. He’s got his quest and he’s having fun.