Chance Turbo - amusement ride in action (off ride)

Chance Turbo in action - rare amusement ride from the past.

originally posted on Dave Burton's Amusement Ride Extravaganza
(http://www.ride-extravaganza.com

I didn't pick the music - must've been current at the time it was made.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Turbo
• Chance
• Rides
• rare
• Amusement
• Ride
• Australia

[MarioKart9563]

do they make these anymore???

[johnrea77]

@MarioKart9563 No - Chance stopped making the Turbo many years ago. I've heard some different numbers but I believe less than thirty were built. Chance also made the Radar (aka Raven) which had ferris wheel style seats on the same frame. There was one operating Turbo in Australia that toured China a few years back. There is one Turbo in the US that is in the process of refurbishment.

[38wd]

I'd like to know something about this amazing ride

how do you enter/exit the upper does the top top move round to release the occupants

[johnrea77]

@38wd

 The doors to the cabins open outward while they are located at the bottom of the rotation.

[Thoughtfulguy68]

You sit in this circle shaped cage with a thick lap bar (just like the Zipper) and you hold the bars on the front of the cage to protect your skull and chest bones :) -The thing thrusts you face down inches from the ground at full force -when you're in the air you flip around in a perpendicular way -even though the ride moves in a circular way -a really weird feeling! -unlike the Zipper where you flip backwards and forwards. I only rode this 2 times in my life, but it was amazing:)

[OddenFilms]

This looks fun.

[tinyshark27]

@MarioKart9563 I asked an employee at Chance Morgan and they said that it was just ahead of its time and that it was too scary 40 years ago and never caught on, and it travels on two trailers which made it costly to move. Only 23 of these rides were ever produced.

[kikieran]

I remember this at the show as a small kid. Is was one of those ride I looked up and and went "wow, I wanna go on that when im older". Sadly, never got the chance, the year i would have been tall enough, it never appeared, and never did again...

[quicksilverwade]

I was nine years old the first time I rode this ride. I was even able to ride solo.

[38wd]

@johnrea77 cheers Johnrea for the info som Im guessing the upper sections do move to the bottom. It would be nice if Chance relaunched the turbo again

[Ninewis]

I can't wait until the one in Australia is finished being repaired :O