About the Schmid Orpheus.
Schmid was in the 60s the chief engineer at Porsche.
He designed a hybrid record car in 1960 - the concept showed a jet engine which exhaust "moved" a paddle in the rear of the car to turn the rear wheels......the idea was that 60 percent of the power to push the car forward would come from the trust power, 40 percent wheel powered.
Schmid was interest to go 500+ mph.
The reason for this hybrid was the rule book to this time....to this time there was only wheel powered cars allowed.
After Donald Campbell's crash in 1960 at Bonneville with the Bluebird CN7, Schmid modified the design of the car to the 1963 version, which I done.
They start to built the car in Italy but it was coming to the stop when the British goverment didn't allowed to sale the necessary (british) jet engine....the reason was that the Briton Donald Campbell was still trying to get the record for England.........so this very interested project was never finished.
Another interested detail on the car was the solid wheels - it was 15 years later that so wheels was used in the LSR sport - SMI Motivator (Kitty O'Neil) and Slick Gardner (ex Art Arfons Green Monster)