The ZIP

Once again, the dangerous, dynamic duo decided it would be "neat" to build a zip gun. Gene is not going to tell anybody how to do it except to say that there was some similarity to the "Rocket" construction only on much smaller scale. One piece was fastened to the wood and loaded and when it went off it would shoot a pellet just the way a gun would shoot a bullet. Now this wasn't built for any other reason except the natural curiousity of young boys to see if they could actually do it. Gene doesn't remember how he and Bob found out how to do it and they had no particular plans for what to do with it when they finished. Unfortunately, it worked better than it should have. Gene and Bob were sitting in the back seat of Dad's 1940 Chevrolet. Bob was enthusiastically loading it when it when off and shot a hole through the back of the front seat of the car. Gene says with a smile "that the hole was so small that it was never discovered and they got away with it."