Stinky Car (Episode)

Stinky Car/Raccoon Rocket
The group cleaning out the car. Jamie can be seen on the right.
Overview:
Written By:	Andrew Farrell Peter Rees - Concept
Producers:	Peter Rees Jamie Hyneman - Executive Adam Savage - Executive
Narrators:	Robert Lee - US & Australia Robin Banks - Europe
Hosts:	Adam Savage Jamie Hyneman
Myths:	Interior will be Destroyed - Confirmed You can't Clean out the Smell - Confirmed You Can't Sell the Car - Busted
Details:
Season:	1
Episode Number:	10
Series Number:	10
Released:	5th December, 2003
Episode Guide:
⬅ Previous	Lightning Strikes
Next ➡	Escape from Alcatraz

The Mythbusters see if a car can get so stinky that no one will buy it. Waiting for 3 months for 2 dead pigs to decompose in a car, the want to test raccoon rocket, where a person lighting gasoline in a sewer pipe to eliminate a raccoon but shoots himself out but lives. Looks like a job for Buster!

Episode Cast:

• Jamie Hyneman - Host
• Adam Savage - Host
• Heather Joseph-Witham - Folklorist
• Robert Lee - Narrator (voice)
• Buster - Crash Test Dummy (uncredited)
• John McLeod - As Himself
• Gary Robbins - As Himself
• Neal Smither - As Himself

Myths:

Stinky Car:

Fresh pig corpses were placed in a 1987 Chevrolet Corvette, which was sealed with Pressure sensitive tape and placed in a Intermodal container for two months.

If a decomposing body is left in a car long enough...

Myth statement	Status	Notes
...the car's interior will be destroyed.	Confirmed	When unsealed, the car was full of condensation and maggots, and the upholstery was dirty and disintegrating.
...the car cannot be cleaned up enough to remove the smell completely.	Confirmed	With the aid of a professional cleaning company, the car was cleaned, but some parts (such as the seats) proved to be beyond the cleaners' abilities, as well as the impracticality of disassembling every part. Adam and Jamie also reasoned that traces of material in the air conditioning system would cause the smell to linger.
...the car cannot be cleaned up enough to be sold.	Busted	After the smell and failure to start turned away several potential buyers, the MythBusters did find a buyer who was willing to purchase the car for $2,000 and use it for spare parts.

Raccoon Rocket:

Myth statement	Status	Notes
A hillbilly was blasted 200ft out of a culvert when he tried to light gasoline in an attempt to chase down a raccoon which had escaped down the pipe.	Busted	Buster was simply lit on fire when the gasoline was ignited. The only way the result of the myth was duplicated was by encasing Buster in a foam sabot, plugging the bottom end of the culvert, and using 10lb of gunpowder; resulting in Buster only travelling 100ft, half the distance of their goal.