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Powered by a Jet Engine, the Chrysler Turbine Car Could Run on Perfume or Tequila
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Revisiting the Future with the 1963 Chrysler Turbine Car
From the Archive: Chrysler s turbine-powered prototypes envisioned a future that never came to pass.
From the May 1989 issue of Car and Driver.
Some guys claim they can see the future, and I like to squint though the sights at it myself every so often. But this little adventure is going to be backward, sort of like going around to the muzzle end and peering up the barrel, trying to figure why we heard the bang and then nothing came out. Jet-Power and Cool Concepts
The old Chrysler Corporation was going to build cars with gas-turbine engines just as soon as.well, pretty damn soon. What started out in the minds of a few engineers stimulated by World War II inventiveness as a brainstorm that just might work became a drive-it-around prototype in October of 1953: Chrysler began testing a stock-bodied 1954 Plymouth powered by a turbine. As the decade went by, more and more turbine prototypes whirred out of the Chrysler Engine
Automotive gas turbines should not be confused with pure jet engines which propel airplanes by the thrust of expelled gas. While the operating principle is the same, a car’s turbine, like a piston engine, rotates a shaft geared to the vehicle’s driveline. Turbine pioneer Dr. Sanford Moss of General Electric began experimenting with gas turbines early in the twentieth century. There were already wind, water and steam turbines but energising a turbine by burning the fuel directly was new. In the 1920s Dr. Moss turned his attention to related exhaust actuated turbine-driven superchargers, called turbochargers, that enabled aircraft piston engines to maintain sea level performance at high altitudes. For Moss’s success he became known as the “Father of Turbocharging.”