when I was 12 years old. Does resemble a Thunderbird ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_Turbine_Car
The thing I remember was that to show how smooth the turbine was
they set a nickel on it's edge on top of the motor, and the motor was
so smooth the nickel just sat there. Someone then revved up the
motor and the nickel vanished somewhere down in the engine
compartment.....
No pics.... maybe my dad took some... don't remember.
Walt
PS
A total of 55 turbine cars were produced. When Chrysler had finished the user
program and other public displays of the cars, 46 of them were destroyed to
avoid an import tariff. Of the remaining nine cars, six had the engines
de-activated and then they were donated to museums around the country. Chrysler
retained three of the turbine cars for historical reasons. One of the cars kept
by Chrysler is stored in running condition at the proving grounds, while
another car was purchased from a museum by private automobile collector Frank
Kleptz of Terre Haute, Indiana and is also functional. The last turbine car
that is functional is owned by the Museum of Transportation in St. Louis, was
photographed for Mopar Action magazine, and appears at car shows around the
United States from time to time. An owner of a non-functional car contacted the
then Chrysler chairman Robert Lutz, who gave him the proper part to make it
functional[citation needed], making four out of the nine fully working vehicles.
Flick01@Aol.Com wrote:
>
>
> */Every once in a while on "B Movie Night" you can find the film where
> they story was about a guy developing one of the Chrysler Turbines. I
> believe I read somewhere the car was donated for the fil when
> development was stopped on that particular car. What struck me about the
> car was (like a lot of Chrylsers from the early 60s) it copied Ford
> styling. (the normal looking cars, not the ones that looked like Mothra
> such as the 61 Fury) The first time I saw the movie it showed the car at
> a distance and it looked almost identical to a 61 through 63 T bird. I
> haven't seen the video yet but yes, it's a shame these car are not
> preserved. I remember all the car magazines featuring them and though I
> was too young at the time to know the difference between a gasoline
> engine and a turbine they were part of early 60s culture and should be
> preserve, restored, and showed if for no other reason, than to let
> today's greenies see that alternatives to standard engines is not
> exclusively their territory./*
>
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