So Lotus co-founder Colin Chapman and his design team built the Type 56 around a gasoline-powered turbine engine made by Pratt & Whitney. You know, the aerospace company. The one that makes jet ...

The 880-hp Jet-Vette and the 1968 Lotus 56-3 are icons of days gone by—and they’re still intimidating. Read about or drives in each and see photos at Car and Driver.

Built for the 1968 Indy 500, the Lotus Type 56 isn't your average vintage race car, if there is such a thing. It's a Pratt and Whitney turbine-powered, all-wheel drive racer once piloted by Graham ...

MECUM AUCTIONS UNVEILS HISTORIC LOTUS TYPE 56 TURBINE INDY RACECAR TO BE OFFERED AT MONTEREY, AUGUST 16-18, 2012. From the Private Collection of Racing Legend “The King” Richard Petty.

The product of the Granatelli/Lotus collaboration was the Lotus 56, the first-ever turbine-powered Lotus car. Like the car driven by Parnelli Jones one year earlier, the 56 would also take ...

When you see the Lotus 56-3 in person, its design is startling. Other Indy cars at the time still had a sort of hand-rolled cigarette profile, rounded in the middle and skinny on the ends.

The Lotus Type 56 that helped spin the turbine revolution at Indianapolis in 1968 is up for auction Jan 17 at Barrett-Jackson. By Mark Vaughn Published: Dec 30, 2014. Save Article.

When we talked to him, he owned a piece of automotive history, the 1968 Lotus Type 56-3 turbine car that took on the piston-powered racers at the Indianapolis 500. Andy Granatelli's No. 70 didn't ...

Few teams pushed the creative boundaries like Team Lotus, of course. The 56B is the only gas turbine car to have competed in Formula 1, and the only one that ever will unless there’s a ...

These were years of wild experiments in fields as apart as aerodynamics and sponsorship structures, and they produced fascinating evolutionary dead-ends like the Lotus 56, a turbine-powered, four ...

The turbine cars that once ran at Indy carried the spirit of innovation. ... The next year, Granatelli teamed with Lotus to create the even more radical Lotus 56, ...