What do you do if your 535ci, nitrous-injected Corvette just isn't fast enough? Well, if it's 1978 and you're corporate jet entrepreneur Herb Orlowitz, you call your friend Vince Granatelli and ask him to build something "really fast." As Peter Frey told the story in the Nov. 1979 issue of Motor Trend, Granatelli at first offered Orlowitz one of the turbine-powered Lotus 56s that ran the Indy 500 in 1968, the Graham Hill car that had been recently restored.
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