I Never Thought I'd Actually See One Of These.........

<strong>Up close and personal, and rolling down the road, A Chrysler Turbine Car, courtesy of Jay Leno, at todays Supercar Sunday..........<img src="http://static.yuku.com//domainskins/bypass/img/smileys/eek.gif" alt="image"><br><br><img src="http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g186/68RancheroGT/Car%20Show%20Pix/100_0218-1.jpg" alt="image"><br><img src="http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g186/68RancheroGT/Car%20Show%20Pix/100_0219-1.jpg" alt="image"><br><img src="http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g186/68RancheroGT/Car%20Show%20Pix/100_0221-1.jpg" alt="image"><br><img src="http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g186/68RancheroGT/Car%20Show%20Pix/100_0222-1.jpg" alt="image"><br><img src="http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g186/68RancheroGT/Car%20Show%20Pix/100_0215-1.jpg" alt="image"><br><img src="http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g186/68RancheroGT/Car%20Show%20Pix/100_0213-1.jpg" alt="image"><br><img src="http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g186/68RancheroGT/Car%20Show%20Pix/100_0214-1.jpg" alt="image"><br><img src="http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g186/68RancheroGT/Car%20Show%20Pix/100_0211-1.jpg" alt="image"><br><img src="http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g186/68RancheroGT/Car%20Show%20Pix/100_0209-1.jpg" alt="image"><br><img src="http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g186/68RancheroGT/Car%20Show%20Pix/100_0207-1.jpg" alt="image"><br><img src="http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g186/68RancheroGT/Car%20Show%20Pix/100_0206-1.jpg" alt="image"><br><br>It drew quite a crowd, as expected when Jay shows up with any of his vast collection of cars........<br><img src="http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g186/68RancheroGT/Car%20Show%20Pix/100_0210-1.jpg" alt="image"><br><img src="http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g186/68RancheroGT/Car%20Show%20Pix/100_0205-1.jpg" alt="image"><br><img src="http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g186/68RancheroGT/Car%20Show%20Pix/100_0212-1.jpg" alt="image"><br><img src="http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g186/68RancheroGT/Car%20Show%20Pix/100_0216-1.jpg" alt="image"><br><img src="http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g186/68RancheroGT/Car%20Show%20Pix/100_0217-1.jpg" alt="image"><br><br>Had a nice hum to it, but i can see why Chrysler never put it in production, just not practical at all........<br><br>Thanx for the look! <img src="http://static.yuku.com//domainskins/bypass/img/smileys/happy.gif" alt="image"><br><br><br><br><br></strong>

Wild looking car there. Kinda has the early 60's t-bird body lines in it.

<strong>HELL YA! UNtouched too!! SWEET!</strong>

<span><span id="temp-1"></span></span><span><span><span><span id="temp-1"></span><span id="temp-1"></span></span></span></span><span><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/efID00W3F7I&amp;rel=1" width="425" height="355" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="never" wmode="transparent"></embed></span><br>His turbine motorcycle is a wild one as well. Sounds like a jet taking off.<br>Tim

<span><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/5IF0VbUb_Ug&amp;rel=1" width="425" height="355" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" allowscriptaccess="never"></embed></span><br>Is this the same car, maybe before Leno aquired it?<br>Tim

<strong>Yep, totally bone stock untouched original condition, right down to the paint niks and small body dings......<br><br>Built with the few others in '65-'66, i believe? Somewhere around there for sure tho......</strong>

<blockquote> <strong class="quote-title"><span><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/5IF0VbUb_Ug&amp;rel=1" width="425" height="355" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" allowscriptaccess="never"></embed></span></strong> Beach bomb wrote: <hr><span><span id="temp-1"></span></span> <br> Is this the same car, maybe before Leno aquired it? <br> Tim</blockquote><strong>It could be Tim, as all were built exactly the same, color and everything, but the one Jay has, has unpolished end cases on the Turbineengine, so it may not be the same one........</strong><br><br>

I'd never seen or heard of that car prior to this thread. Man, that thing is wild.<br><br>Did it go particularly fast? Or was it just an experiment in a different type of engine?<br><br>One thing is certain; sucker is noisy.

Now that car is totally bitchen.<br>I love the console on that puppy!<br>

johnny, I 'm glad you got to hear it. I had a car in Pebble Beach a few years back and there was one there that whirred by on the grass; coolest soundingthing...

What a killer car...<br>Jeff

Beautiful piece of history, and I'm sure it's <span style="font-style: italic;">almost</span> priceless!<br>

Those are very cool. I have the original model and promo model. There was a white one used in a movie in the 60's. The name escapes me at the moment.{edit} I believe the movie is "The Lively Set" or something like that.

<blockquote> <strong class="quote-title">1Perry wrote:</strong> <hr> Those are very cool. I have the original model and promo model. There was a white one used in a movie in the 60's. The name escapes me at the moment. {edit} I believe the movie is "The Lively Set" or something like that.</blockquote><br><br>I haven't seen the film, but that's the name.<br>Wasn't one used in a Pike's Peak hillclimb?

I have the model kit. Still have it but I "modified" it when i was a kid and stuck a big, blown HEMI in the front and burned (yes I said burned) ahole in the hood for it to stick out of. Maybe I can get some photos of it. I have the original box for the model too. I believe it was a "Johann"kit or something like that.

The model was released by Jo-han. They gave a car or a couple cars to a select number of familes to use. I looked but couldn't find it, but there is areally cool pic somewhere of a family getting out of the car in front of a Tiki restuarant.<br><br>It's a very cool pic.

Nice....Thanks for sharing....Bill<br><br>I would love to walk around Jays garage...have seen some of it on different car programs.<br>He has some collection..he collects the 1:1 like we collect the 1:64.

A very cool car, to be sure, although the styling is basically a ripoff of the mid-60's Thunderbird.<br><br>But I gotta' say, it's emblematic of the kind of dumb things the Big 3 have done over the years that cost them billions in research &amp; development,and for something that was no more than a very pricey publicity stunt.<br><br>A turbine is very obviously the wrong powerplant for automotive applications... they have very low horsepower and almost no torque. They're best in useswhere constant, static thrust is required (i.e. aircraft, generators, etc.) - NOT the kind of constant on/off power required by cars. So the turbine cars werenot only slow and heavy, but because the turbine was operating so ineffectively, got terrible gas mileage as well. About the only thing it could do wasmaintain high speeds with relative economy - but the car's 60's aerodynamics were so bad that this lone advantage was negated anyway.

that's one sweet ride

Actually, Chrysler made numerous attempts at powering cars with turbines starting as far back as 1954 and as recent as 1980 ! See and read about them all here.... <br><br><a target="_blank" href="http://auto.howstuffworks.com/chrysler-turbine-concept-cars.htm/printable">Chrysler Turbine Cars</a><br><br><br>Mark.

Great article. Thanks.

Saw that car, at a Swapmeet, in Englishtown NJ. About 10-15 years ago. I have a pic of it somw where. Cool car.

<font size="4"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">What a wild looking car! I bet it brought a lot of attention.</span> <img style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);" src="http://static.yuku.com//domainskins/bypass/img/smileys/happy.gif" alt="image"><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">~Karen</span></font><br>