We Have All Heard Of Horror Stories,

of pets and children being left locked in cars,

that have overheated in the sun, so how hot do cars left in the sun actually get? a Western Australian man claims to have successfully cooked a whole pork roast by leaving it inside a car for about 10 hours on a very hot day, although he conducted the experiment for fun, the man did warn people not to leave their kids or pets in their cars during the summer,

Stu Pengelly, from Perth, in Western Australia, decided to see what would happen if he left a 1,5 kg pork roast on the front seat of his old Datsun for ten hours on a hot summer day, He put the meat in at around 7 a.m, when the thermometer showed a bearable 30 degrees Celsius (86 Fahrenheit) inside the beat-up vehicle, but by midday, temperatures reached a scorching 81 degrees Celsius (more than 177 Fahrenheit), Pengelly monitored the temperature throughout the day, and when the ten hours were up, he took the pork, sliced it and even took a few bites to show that it was cooked, 

he even made CNA television news, and his car used in the experiment?

a Datsun Sunny of course! photographs by Stu Pengelly/Facebook.