Mckee Race Cars. Bob mckee began his racing career by building stock cars for tiny lund and being dick rathmann s crew chief for indy car competition. Planned by racing driver ray heppenstall the tx combined a chassis built by mckee engineering turbine engines leased from continental aviation engineering and financial backing and materials from the howmet corporation.
Although not the first attempt at using a turbine powerplant in auto racing the howmet tx was the first and is. Bob mckee began his racing career by building stock cars for tiny lund and being dick rathmann s crew chief for indy car competition. Two cars were built the first going to ike uihlein.
Row two is ralph salyer in a mclaren m1a and jerry hansen in a mckee.
This car is the show car. Owned by bob stanford mars pa and pictured here it first raced as early as the dec 1969 sebring event it was variously described as a 7f or 7s. His first creation was the chevette which was comprised of many general motors components mainly the chevelle and corvette. By the early to mid 1960 s he was building racers under his own surname.
