Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site eisx.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!akgua!whuxle!spuxll!eisx!jeb From: jeb@eisx.UUCP Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: Acceleration? You want acceleration? Message-ID: <767@eisx.UUCP> Date: Fri, 17-Aug-84 06:07:19 EDT Article-I.D.: eisx.767 Posted: Fri Aug 17 06:07:19 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 19-Aug-84 14:15:17 EDT Organization: AT&T Info. Sys. Labs, South Plainfield NJ Lines: 32 <> Reprinted from this week's issue of OLD CARS WEEKLY: Houston, Texas, Aug. 3, 1984 ... Two turbine cars built by Andy Granatelli will be sold at an auction here next week. Auctioneer Mitchell Kruse said the machines, an Indy 500 race car and a custom Corvette, will be offered "basically without reserves." The unique Corvette was made for Herb Orlowitz, a Boca Raton Fla. businessman who wanted a very fast, street-legal sports car. It is powered by a 1,000 hp Pratt & Whitney engine that idles at 20,000 rpm. Reports said the black and silver Corvette can move from standstill to 55 mph in 2.8 sec. A top speed of over 200 mph is claimed. In 1982, the Corvette was sold to Milton Verret at a Phoenix auction. The Beaumont, Texas businessman paid $550,000 for it, outbidding baseball star Reggie Jackson. It was the highest price paid for a car at auction at tht time. ------------------------------------------------------------------ My comment: wouldn't you love to have a beast like that just long enough to take it to a NJ State MV inspection station? When they test the exhaust, you could just goose the turbine a little and melt the probe right off. Jim Beckman ATTISL, South Plainfield, NJ eisx!jeb