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From: jeb@eisx.UUCP
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Subject: Acceleration? You want acceleration?
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Date: Fri, 17-Aug-84 06:07:19 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 17 06:07:19 1984
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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.

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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