{"id":102252,"date":"2015-01-10T08:33:18","date_gmt":"2015-01-10T15:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=102252"},"modified":"2015-01-10T08:33:18","modified_gmt":"2015-01-10T15:33:18","slug":"driving-the-jet-vette-an-880-hp-turbine-engined-piece-of-car-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=102252","title":{"rendered":"Driving the Jet Vette, an 880-hp, turbine-engined piece of car history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starting the only known street-legal, jet-engined Corvette is easy. Push the buttons on the console to turn on the igniters inside the Pratt &amp; Whitney turbine (assuming you&#8217;ve put jet A fuel into the tank, although it will run on nearly anything that burns.) Engage the starter so the turbines begin spinning up to 30,000 rpm. Push in a T-handle that looks like a choke from a 1940s sedan, and once the engine&#8217;s at speed, turn the igniters off. Don&#8217;t worry \u2014 you&#8217;ll know when it&#8217;s running by the sound of a jet surrounding you.<\/p>\n<p>The Jet Vette was the creation of Andy and Vince Granatelli, created in\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/autos.yahoo.com\/blogs\/motoramic\/driving-the-jet-vette--an-880-hp--turbine-engined-piece-of-car-history-161604424.html\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting the only known street-legal, jet-engined Corvette is easy. Push the buttons on the console to turn on the igniters inside the Pratt &amp; Whitney turbine (assuming you&#8217;ve put jet A fuel into the tank, although it will run on nearly anything that burns.) Engage the starter so the turbines begin spinning up to 30,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,7,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-misc","category-automobile","category-sports-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102253,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102252\/revisions\/102253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}