Chrysler Turbine Car

This is one of the few remaining Chrysler Turbine cars that actually runs. It sounds like a jet airplane!

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Autos & Vehicles

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• Chrysler Turbine Car
• turbine
• 1963
• 1964

[TRX400atc1994]

i hate to sound like a dumby iv been around old cars all my life and know alot about them but did dodge actully make a car with a turbine engine?

[CudaHemiTom]

@TRX400atc  1994 Yes they did! You can read all about it at: allpar.com/mopar/turbine.html

[jcbrewer3]

I spent some time in one at the "64" Worlds Fair and don't recall the exhaust temperature being excessive at all... I do remember the exhaust as having very little odor... burned clean.

[CudaHemiTom]

@jcbrewer3 I felt the exhaust temperature on the car when it was running and it was like a normal car.

[goreur10]

3:16 bless you...

[kolbpilot]

One of the most unique cars of all time, from any country. Yankee know-how at one of its best examples.

[VictrolaJazz]

From the golden age of automotive engineering!  Ten years hence this would all be gone, replaced by government oversight and the bean counters! This was really the only time such a thing could have happened!

[jedgarsquink]

Turbines are thirsty, as a rule, compared to piston engines, and expensive to build. They also have a lag in power delivery, a bit like turbo lag, that is a problem in a car. They do have good size and weight efficiency, which makes them attractive for aircraft. The response lag is not much of an issue for aircraft.

This car used a set of ceramic heat recovery units that transferred heat from the exhaust to the incoming air. This hurt the size and weight, but added thermal efficiency.

[kappucinokid]

What an amazing car.

[mthansen176]

That is sooooo cool!

[uticaplay]

@ADSLISKEWL Yes they did but you have to remember back then they did not have Radial tires (SAVES FUEL) the cars back then were made of steel no plastic or composite materials like we have today. They did drive one from NY to LA I believe average like 50 MPH (Consider the roads back then) and it averaged I think it was about 17MPG. With today's better alloys and CNC machines we do do far better.

[ADSLISKEWL]

@79tazman except they use MORE fuel than a standard car

[centralnyguy37]

Does anyone know what kind of power these cars put out ? Or what the fuel economy was ? Just curious.

[TheRubpub]

@regnidak not when you are inside the car and cruisin'

[TheRubpub]

@CudaHemiTom hey......my father was vice president of chrysler canada at one point in his life he brought home this car.for a weekend..everybody crowded around it started like something out of the JETSONS...we were in Detroit at the time and went thru the tunnel to Amherstburg ontario...we fueled with diesel.....but you could feed it anything like banana peels......anyways I was around 15 at the time and really liked the attention the car received...it never went anywhere

[XDragonTwisted]

Oh yeah, f*ck the fuel economy