The Turbulent Turbine

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“Turbulent Turbine” as seen on NBC-TV May 27, 1968!! John Totten traces the history of the turbine-powered racecar!! Featuring Gen. Curtis LeMay’s “Fire Boid”!! Andy Granatelli’s STP-Paxton Turbocar!! And much more!! (Thanks for posting this!)

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John Totten was one of two or three WFBM TV-6 (NBC affiliated Indianapolis TV station on Meridian Street near the city's main competition of WISH TV and WLWI TV along with radio station, WIFE *Lucky 13" AM) Totten was a somewhat "laid back" sportscaster for WFBM. One thing I remember him doing with chief WFBM sportscaster (and I.M.S. chief track announcer, Tom Carnegie) was their fall of 1969 special on A.J. Foyt and Dan Gurney history at Indy up to that point. I've got that TV special on tape (reel to reel then, dubbed to cassette years later) The dynamic history of the racing turbine engine with passionate love of it by the famous STP Corporation Granatelli boys makes this TV special of 1968 make this a worthy history of motor racing archives. It's a bit of a shame that the turbine power of Granatelli's car sponsorship never won an Indy race of any kind. Still...I wonder IF the famous, great F-1 champ, Jim Clark would have "turned the magic" and win Indy with the '68 Lotus car? I think so because Jimmy was a natural for race cars as long as they ran well enough. Thanks for posting this interesting TV special video.

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@@tsf5-productions I knew it was Channel 6, but erred in looking up the affiliation. Thank you for the correction and the additional information!