As the years pile up, I find myself learning more about people I used to know than I ever appreciated at the time. So it is with Ray Heppenstall, the brusque, raw-edged racer from Pittsburgh, PA.
My first impression of him was a little alarming. It was at Sebring in 1968, when I was a young journalist and his car was guaranteed to fascinate me: the Howmet Turbine. This was a McKee Can-Am roadster fitted with a coupe roof and an experimental Continental gas-turbine stuffed into the engine bay.
