Chrysler Turbine Cars were automobiles powered by gas turbine engines that the Chrysler Corporation made from 1962-1964. Good for the times but not really exceptional.
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One car company was even bold enough to put a jet engine in an automobile and that is the topic of Steve Lehtos Chryslers Turbine Car a delightful history of as the subtitle has it.
Chrysler jet engine car. From the very early 1950s through to the early 1980s the company experimented with gas-turbine technology and its potential as a powerplant for. In 1963 and 1964 Chrysler assembled 50 automobiles with turbine engines for consumer testing. The Rise and Fall of Detroits Coolest Creation.
The personal luxury version was the companys first model produced specifically for that market and the first Chrysler-branded vehicle that was smaller than full-size. They had about equal performance and the Turbine car. Jet engines are much simpler with one big spinning whirlygig as opposed to six or eight metal pistons flying up and down and changing direction up several thousand times every second.
Bodies for the Chrysler Turbine were. The american company Chrysler was one of the first auto-makers to experiment with the gas-turbine engine as a method of powering regular road-going cars. This new turbine supercar runs.
Special turbo motif bodies made by Ghia in Turin Italy visually highlighted the futuristic promise of jet. The Chrysler Turbine Car of the 1960s had been in development since the 1950s when Chrysler went through three versions of turbine engines. Chryslers own slant sixes would typically go that far or further.
As America soared into the Jet Age Chrysler touted the possible advantages of aircraft-style automobile engines over piston engines. The turbine offers the potential for superb longevity but that depends on the extent to which exotic and expensive materials are utilized. The Chrysler turbine engine is a series of gas turbine engines developed by Chrysler intended to be used in road vehicles.
Though many had their doubts that the jet would be a good automotive powerplant Chrysler thought a turbine car engine would enjoy many of the same advantages over piston powered as a turbine airplane engine. The third such engine the CR2A was fitted to a quartet of 1962-model hardtop coupes -- two Dodge Darts and a pair of Plymouth Furys --. Back then you could buy a V8-powered car for 5000 or this jet- engine car that would have cost around 16000.
Jay Lenos shows off his rare 1963 powered by gasTurbine engine The car sounds like a giant vacuum cleaner at the Friday Classic car night at Bobs Big Boy. The Chrysler Cordoba was both a one year only full-sized luxury car based on the Chrysler New Yorker and an intermediate personal luxury coupe sold by Chrysler in North America from 1975 to 1983. Chryslers own test found that its turbine had a lifespan of up to 175k miles.
The designs of these 1950s and 1960s iron giants were inspired by the space race and the dawn of jet travel. An aero-engined car is an automobile powered by an engine designed for aircraft useMost such cars have been built for racing and many have attempted to set world land speed recordsWhile the practice of fitting cars with aircraft engines predates World War I by a few years it was most popular in the interwar period between the world wars when military-surplus aircraft engines were readily. In 1954 Chrysler Corporation disclosed the development and successful road testing of a production model Plymouth sport coupe which was powered by a turbine engine.
We recently had the opportunity to go for a drive in the Chrysler Turbine Car. A 1963 Chrysler turbine car and GMs 1950s Firebird jet cars inspired Jay Leno to build another high-tech supercar. We filmed a full-length video about the car which will be up here shortly.
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