It is hard to find a car that more perfectly encapsulates the wildcat spirit of 1950s and '60s sports car racing, or just the whole Speed Racer ethos altogether, quite like the Howmet TX. It's a ...

Most of us are used to the sounds of controlled combustion as a piston (or rotary) engine works its strokes and climbs up its rev range. However, it’s not often one gets to hear a turbine jet-powered ...

The Howmet Turbine Experimental racecar is the brainchild of Bob McKee, a man who created several notable race cars. The 1968 Howmet TX is notable though not just for its gas turbine power plant but ...

The Howmet TX, a pioneering gas turbine racecar, appeared at Villa d’Este as a reminder of one of motorsport’s boldest experiments. Built in the late 1960s, it used a helicopter-derived turbine engine ...