Of course, given the laws of physics as we know them, there is a big question mark hanging over this story.
Let's put this into perspective. The current world land speed record is 1227.6km/h. The well-known Bloodhound SSC project is aiming to soon shatter that with a projected speed of at least 1600km/h.
But 3600km/h? According to Popular Mechanics magazine, Californian Waldo Stakes is hoping to totally obliterate the existing land speed record with his Wind Land Speed Research Vehicle and he even thinks it's possible to break the 3600km/h barrier in it.
Although working as a general contractor and having dropped out of college, Stakes claims to have at least a thousand books on engineering and aerodynamics and has been obsessed with speed since childhood. He's also set other smaller records in the 1980s, for motorbikes and naturally aspirated cars.
What's more, his workshop houses more than just thorough sketches of his planned rocket car - he's spent decades collecting the necessary materials, including a pair of XLR99 rocket engines taken from the X-15 experimental plane that set the flight speed record (7232km/h) over 40 years ago. He also owns pressure vessels from the service module of the Apollo spacecraft and a pair of fuel tanks poached from a Redstone rocket among other parts and tools.
Waldo believes that, with a mixture of liquid oxygen and methanol, he can get the rocket engine to run at 61 000 pounds of thrust.
So the power's sorted, but that's clearly not the main obstacle. Stability was a challenge even for the current land speed record, yet Waldo plans to use all the forces acting on the car to keep it on the ground and in a straight line with a nose that creates shock waves - among other innovations.
Ambitious, certainly, but whether Waldo can actually create something to beat the multimillion-dollar Bloodhound SSC effort remains to be seen.