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72LS1Vette

Interesting turbo orientation. Too bad my tach only goes to 80,000 or I might try that myself.



Rick B.

Attfay Elleybay

That is one ugly vette. But the 'Red Velvet' interior with pearl naughyde sounds cool.

78VetteChic

Nope.

1Sweet66

92,000 RPM?

Ed Campbell

Looks like the 92000 rpm may have caused overheating and warped the body. Hope that beautiful interior survived. Ed

929nitro

To each his own I guess. Looks like a fifties science experiment gone bad.

RunningMan373

Is that Nixon?

OURSHARK

I can't understand how a great looking car, can be turned into something so ugly, by so many different people.

pbcanney

Carl Casper was famous back in the 60's and still has an active museum today. It's easy to poke fun at fads in the past, but customs were all the rage at one time.

I've only seen one color picture of the real car (which if I remember correctly was built from a 1964 convertible) but he was a big fan of heavy fogging.

I wonder where it is today.

here's some more Casper:
http://www.carlcasper.com/photos/Car...d/CASPER_1.htm

guitarcrazy02

That's no turbine engine. It still has the chrome distributor shielding.

wer2xu

yeah, and you can see the turbo in the lower left corner of that picture...32K would be the speed of the turbine in the turbo.

wait it says 92K....that turbo would explode into a bazillion pieces....


GE T700-401C power turbine is only in the 30K range..if I remember right, but it does operate in the high 800 degree exhaust gas temperature

not a '76

turbochargers spin way fast.

here is a typical map



notice the 150,000 RPM and that the map doesnt even bother to exist below 80,000 RPM

wer2xu

jesus, I honestly did not think they spun that fast.

CorvetteMike2024

Well I like it.

Corvette Mike

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CorvetteMike2024

Thanks for the link I remember those days. People didnt get upset when you modified something.

Mike

69Vett

He also ran a series of Car shows too ! 69VETT