It would either be Jay or Chrysler, because #991231 (VIN) blew up. Chrysler does not offer services to restore these engines with modern materials, so the poor car is never going to see the road again (unless they'd 7.2 Magnum swap it, which would be funny. Thing goes to a drag strip, you expect a quiet A-831 gas turbine, and get a sports car killing 200mph in fourth gear V8).
Not sure what you are saying here. This car (in the video) is one of two owned by Chrysler. Both of those cars run. Jay's runs and so does the St Louis car. And the one owned by the other private owner runs. The ones in museums that do not run (ie., Smothsonian, Henry Ford) were disabled before donation.
+drdriftphd wow. There is an explanation. I ran the Detroit Free Press marathon the day before. My feet were still on rough shape and there was no way I could have worn regular shoes.
I remember seeing one in my hometown of Elmhurst, IL back in the sixties. I recall hearing the sound before I saw the vehicle, wondering what the sound was coming from. When I saw the car I was impressed, and I am still impressed now.
That was an awesome era, the fifties sixties, the usa really peaked at that time. How about this marvel: ua-cam.com/video/NWdCtwJm6nA/v-deo.html, not a car, but equally awesome. The design, the engineering, I always love the smell of the future of that era, and now we are in the future and we drive eco friendly 2 cilinder shopping cars. They promised us hoverboards!
I remember when these cars were assembled & a few turbines were given to individuals to test drive 'round the cities where they resided for a period of time to get how they liked driving the turbines in '63. Bob The Builder👷
I heard some people thought this car looked bland when it was first shown. I wonder what they'd think of our electric and natural gas vehicles in 2021.
This thing was crushed by the absolutely miserable fuel efficiency of a turbine engine. If you're on the highway, it's comparable to a piston engine. If you're in stop-start traffic, you're going to burn 3x the fuel to go the same distance.
Actually, they could not pass the new federal emission regulations. Nothing to do with big oil companies. That, and they were too expensive to build. That, and actual gasoline was cheap at the time, so people didnt care about alternate fuels.
@@Lavoye but regulations like those were only put into place to stop the production of the car and cars like. Had further development continued, these kinks most likely would’ve been ironed out.
Jim ,Of course it is real . Watch the old 1967 Batman t.v series . Ha ha . Seriously , There is so much stuff that I do not know about . Some of the Things actually worked pretty good .
It was a prototype car by Chrysler given to beta testers for some years to inquire about the conceptmof a turbine car. It was found to be unresponsive duento turbine lag, a gas guzzler and very polluting therefore Chrysler cancelled the project, took all the car back and destroyed most of them.
When I was in 8th grade at Utley School in Flint MI a lady at my school was given one of these cars to test drive for a period of time. I was young BUT I remember that sound and the look of that car. I was VERY impressed...
I’d really die for one of these, having a turbine engine in a classic vehicle is definitely not something you’d see everyday. I believe there’s only about 2 available currently, and I really hope to have one of these in the future, (2 are owned by Chrysler and the other 5 are on display and in museums around America).
They didn't have to be destroyed. It was muddled thinking and lack of foresight. Chrysler made other dumb decisions, that is for sure. Destroying hand made Italian cars is totally asinine.
In 1963 at Penn High School in Mishawaka,Indiana ,I was a freshman in auto shop and Chrysler,( there was an AM General plant just down the road at the time, might have mean why it came to Penn???) brought one to the school to show off we even got to drive it around in the parking lot.I was a 16 yr. old kid and was not real impressed by the big Slow Boat at the time! Thinking back it was a once in a life time experience!!
Steve Lehto yeah they closed the Alfa Romeo museum which in the basement had anything and everything since the first Alfa was built to keep running and maintained for many years to come. So Fiat said there wasn't enough visitors to justify keeping it open.
As a prospective jet engine technician for civil aerospace, the sound of this jet engine just puts a smile on my face 😊 plus, one of the designers of this car's jet engine later went on to found Williams International, a manufacturer of jet engines for small businesses jets; I might be employed with them, who knows!
A family about 1 block from me was chosen to test one of these by Chrysler and I got to see one exactly like this one driving around my neighborhood every day. It would even run on cooking oil. As a teenager at the time, we were enthralled.
Juzg - "advanced" does not equal "complicated". The Turbine engine in this car WAS quite advanced. And Piston engines have been around for a LONG time. By definition, that makes them NOT advanced.
@@stevelehto So, if the A-831 wasn't that complicated, that's another great reason the car should enter production. So far, and tell me if I'm wrong on any of this, after all, I'm sure you're better informed about the A-831 than I am, the Turbine car has these going for it: Relative silence, even compared to a modern piston engine Simplicity: As you and @juzgoznasznapamiec stated, gas turbine engines are advanced, but not complex. Maybe even easy to work on? can burn most combustible liquids: They ran these on diesel, leaded gasoline, propane, and didn't the president of Mexico run one on tequila and the French run one on perfume? This engine would be a queen of modern gas, considering it could likely run on biodiesel or straight ethanol, with a teflon coating in the fuel system to prevent rust. Modern materials: One of the reasons it was cancelled was supposedly lack of materials that could handle the strain and not be extremely expensive. Well, modern materials are ready! There's so much more that can be offered today, better heat resistance, more capable aerospace-grade metals that could easier withstand 50k RPM. Or am I just blind to some huge issue these had, besides unreliability due to the lack of available materials? Three HUGE pros that would likely see sales in the millions in the modern world of electric cars, exorbitant gas prices and silenced, ultra efficient fuel engines, and Chrysler-Fiat still doesn't even try to produce them. They could install safety equipment in them and just start production, keeping the original body style, even. It would be a modern car all the way down to the core, but in an antique shell, a window to the past. But then they and Jay Leno. The third blew up, now only a static display because SOME CAR COMPANY refuses to put them back into production with a modern flair, a much larger supply chain than what they had in the 1960's, more skilled mechanics that have to deal with the bullshit that happens with modern electronics (a jet engine would probably be easier than having to deal with an ECU to be honest) and better materials. I can imagine Jay probably sweats every time he drives his, for it could be the last time it sees roadworthiness, as it was for #991231.
Fun fact about gas turbine engines. 75% of intake air is used for cooling, 25% is used for combustion of fuel. The AGT-1500 gas turbine engine used in the M1 Abrams Tank was designed in the 1960's for use in Tractor-Trailers. It's power output is governed to 1,500 HP. They thought gas turbine truck's would run strictly on interstate highways at 80 plus MPH between distribution centers located at on and off ramps. Trailers would be disconnected and another trailer headed to another distribution center would be connected and driver's changed out. Then the EPA stepped in and ended all of that. They only wanted to deal with diesel engines and that was the end of gas turbine engines in long haul, high speed truck's. Gas turbine engines produce the least amount of pollution of any other engine type's due to the extremely high combustion temperatures produced in them.
+Mr Me yes. If you were going to race it, you could do a brake torque: put the brake pedal down along with the gas pedal. THEN launch by letting up on the brake.
+piston head 1243 fuel economy wasn't great but it would run on a variety of fuels. Power was decent but drivability was great. I've driven two of them. A few things helped kill them off, one of which was manufacturing cost.
Diesel 8290 The GE T58 Gas Turbine engine for helicopter use, circa 1950s, lightweight at 250lbs., and 1050 HP would make for a good starting point. It is currently being used in white-water racing jet boats...primarily in Canada. These aluminium lightweight jet-boats work just fine with this engine...too bad it consumes its own weight in fuel in a very short time, especially at WOT. Many individuals have succeded in transplanting these into various boats, but the noise, fuel consumption and radical weight change...making for an unstable hull...these individuals change back to conventional powerplants.
well no offense but "high fuel consumption" is only confirmed verbally with no actual proof. If everything as they say, nobody would ever destroys all the cars - it's nonsense. They obviously found cheap energy, an amazing technology, that is very reliable and used in planes these days.
Gas turbines always have a higher fuel consumption than piston engines because they lose an awful lot of energy through their hot exhaust gas. The simple reason they are commonly used in aircraft is their good power to weight ratio. Furthermore they are not suitable for cars because they react very slow to changing load.
I got to see and sit in one of these cars when I was a kid, too young to drive. They were advertised as "the car of the future." I always wondered what happened. The car does look like it could take off!
The Turbine Indy Car in 1968 sounded just like that. It was like a vacuum cleaner when it went by. So glad I got to be there to see it. It coasted to a stop between the 3rd and 3th turns right in front of where Ii was sitting.
So cool! Love the sound. They actually muffled the sound of this car by creating a larger air box. NOW, If ever I owned one 😏, you better believe I’d be ripping that airbox off and jetting my way through the neighborhoods 😂. What a sweet ride
I would love to see the fuel efficiency versus speed plot. Is it good at highway speeds? You guys drove it around with the engine idling almost all the time. Probably deplorable in-city gas mileage.
Gas turbines are ideally run at a constant speed/power. Unlike a gas piston engine at idle, the turbine still requires significant air/fuel flow to operate. The ideal set up is a turbine-generator set up and electric drive. The maintenance costs will kill ya though. 😆
Let's this Chrysler Turbine running ;) Signed => A lot of fans, can hear this fabulous car running and take the road again :D. This is history ... Thanks again, for this wonderful video (a french fan).
I grew up in Bloomfield Hills Michigan during the 60s, saw several of these on the road. Chrysler executives would get them to drive. They were gorgeous cars and hearing them go by, as a kid was really amazing. I can still remember the sound of a jet going by. But it was a car... And that beautiful coppery colored paint. I think it was metallic, though I could be wrong about that. To this day I'll never forget the Turbine car passing by on Quarton Road. More than 50 years ago and I can still see it and hear it in my mind. Amazing car.
Products like these were Created when companies never curbed their employees' creative liberty. I seldom see innovations like these in the current times of course Tesla being an exception.
Bosoms & booze! There is no way in hell I could ever afford to buy one of the , maybe 4 in existence. Much less maintain it. but I love the history of this car. Such great lines!
Here in New Zealand there was a yellow one ..it stayed in Johnsonville in Wellington City in the mid 80s ..my friend knew exactly what it was - i didn't know what a turbine engine was i was 9 !!!
I really love the sound of that car, also the RPM is quite interesting, it can reach 60k rpm, and because of that i think that the fuel consumption is really bad.. but the sound is cool tho..
Last I heard of the 55 built, 9 were saved - 3 were kept by Chrysler and 6 are in museums somewhere. Amazing thing is these were let loose to be driven by the public to gauge interest then returned after a period of time. How long the people kept them I'm not sure - maybe 6 months to a year, but they would run on anything that was combustible. GM built turbine powered show cars in the '50s but it was for show. Chrysler was dead serious about getting these cars into production but they ran into their financial situation in the '70s and the U.S. government who was funding this for research during that time, cancelled it in the '80s. I thought these cars were gorgeous and they remind me of the '61-63 T-Bird.
The users got them for a couple months each. Chrysler kept two but sold one to Jay Leno a few years ago. Another one is privately owned. Several of the museum cars do NOT run.
This elegant car should be the future of motoring, not electric cars. The Chrysler Turbine is probably more eco-friendly than an electric car because it doesn't require anyone to mine the materials for batteries.
Nice! It sounds like a vacuum cleaner.
I really wish someone would just push the pedal to the floor in one of these
Doesn't work that way with turbines. You would get the same effect that in a turbocharged car would be called turbo lag.
Turbine engines have spool up lagg
it's not really quick, I believe 130 hp?
It would either be Jay or Chrysler, because #991231 (VIN) blew up. Chrysler does not offer services to restore these engines with modern materials, so the poor car is never going to see the road again (unless they'd 7.2 Magnum swap it, which would be funny. Thing goes to a drag strip, you expect a quiet A-831 gas turbine, and get a sports car killing 200mph in fourth gear V8).
Not sure what you are saying here. This car (in the video) is one of two owned by Chrysler. Both of those cars run. Jay's runs and so does the St Louis car. And the one owned by the other private owner runs. The ones in museums that do not run (ie., Smothsonian, Henry Ford) were disabled before donation.
Honda vtec: I rev the highest
Chrysler: Hold my turbine
I am getting SERIOUS fallout vibes from this.
Next step - fission car!
Well a car with a nuclear reactor in it would likely use a turbine too, so yeah.
Another settlement needs your help. I’ll mark it on your map.
A real life corvega!
At least it’s not raining
Turbine cars are amazing ! Full credit to the engineers that created this vehicle !
That has the most amazing amazing design of any car I’ve seen. The interior alone I could stare at for days!!
You get the chance to drive one of the rarest and most unique cars ever and you do it... IN SANDALS?!
+drdriftphd wow. There is an explanation. I ran the Detroit Free Press marathon the day before. My feet were still on rough shape and there was no way I could have worn regular shoes.
ride it barefoot
drdriftphd What the fuck is wrong with sandals
Sandals are power
Why would it be your concern what he wears?
I remember seeing one in my hometown of Elmhurst, IL back in the sixties. I recall hearing the sound before I saw the vehicle, wondering what the sound was coming from. When I saw the car I was impressed, and I am still impressed now.
Anyone else waiting for this dude to taxi onto the runway already and push to full thrust?
This car sounds cool. It sounded like a mini airplane.
Ryosuke.. how's your FC doing?
I was thinking the 1966 Batmobile, but jet is ok
Or a vacuum cleaner.
I never knew this car existed. earlier cars had a great look to them.
That was an awesome era, the fifties sixties, the usa really peaked at that time.
How about this marvel:
ua-cam.com/video/NWdCtwJm6nA/v-deo.html, not a car, but equally awesome. The design, the engineering, I always love the smell of the future of that era, and now we are in the future and we drive eco friendly 2 cilinder shopping cars. They promised us hoverboards!
So true
I remember when these cars were assembled & a few turbines were given to individuals to test drive 'round the cities where they resided for a period of time to get how they liked driving the turbines in '63.
Bob The Builder👷
I heard some people thought this car looked bland when it was first shown. I wonder what they'd think of our electric and natural gas vehicles in 2021.
@@MrTruth111 then the Hart Seller act ruined everything...☹
The design is so beautiful! Unbelieveable!
It's amazing how the oil industry crushed everything that drifted from engines that used petrol
This thing was crushed by the absolutely miserable fuel efficiency of a turbine engine. If you're on the highway, it's comparable to a piston engine. If you're in stop-start traffic, you're going to burn 3x the fuel to go the same distance.
Turbine engines cost too much to produce, I just learned that
Actually, they could not pass the new federal emission regulations. Nothing to do with big oil companies. That, and they were too expensive to build. That, and actual gasoline was cheap at the time, so people didnt care about alternate fuels.
@@Lavoye but regulations like those were only put into place to stop the production of the car and cars like. Had further development continued, these kinks most likely would’ve been ironed out.
I'm sure the heater worked great !!
Yeah just some bleed air and cool air from the mixing valve and it will never get too cold ever lol
3 second and you're in the middle of Sahara
If your cold just stand by the exhaust it will warm you up real quick
Actually most of the head goes right back into the engine. The exhaust is cooler than that of regular cars.
Holy crap, I never realized that was a real thing. I always figured it was a tradeshow mock-up car with a propane fired spinner in the tail.
Jim ,Of course it is real . Watch the old 1967 Batman t.v series . Ha ha . Seriously , There is so much stuff that I do not know about . Some of the Things actually worked pretty good .
It was a prototype car by Chrysler given to beta testers for some years to inquire about the conceptmof a turbine car. It was found to be unresponsive duento turbine lag, a gas guzzler and very polluting therefore Chrysler cancelled the project, took all the car back and destroyed most of them.
@@phantomsoldier497 ..Meanwhile USSR did it for massive 24x24 military vehicles. Man, they had some fucking genius engineers over there, damn.
This car looks so good and futuristic. Why can’t they build cars with such designs anymore?
Yeah i know right!
When I was in 8th grade at Utley School in Flint MI a lady at my school was given one of these cars to test drive for a period of time. I was young BUT I remember that sound and the look of that car. I was VERY impressed...
Yooooooo another tony from flint, my man 🤝
I’d really die for one of these, having a turbine engine in a classic vehicle is definitely not something you’d see everyday. I believe there’s only about 2 available currently, and I really hope to have one of these in the future, (2 are owned by Chrysler and the other 5 are on display and in museums around America).
wanted to hear it, but my wife won't stop vacuuming.
This is the coolest car I've ever seen yet!!
A view from riding inside one of the rarest and most unique cars possible. I think there are only two running survivor cars. WOW. Thank you.
I saw one once at Chryslers at Carlisle, driving. Probably this same car. "Is that a vacuum cleaner under the hood?" I slapped my buddy.
Vinwiki brought me here. What a marvelous story of engineering, it's a shame that so many had to be destroyed.
They didn't have to be destroyed. It was muddled thinking and lack of foresight. Chrysler made other dumb decisions, that is for sure. Destroying hand made Italian cars is totally asinine.
@@72Yonatan The government forced them to destroy a large number of them. There is info available commenting on this.
In 1963 at Penn High School in Mishawaka,Indiana ,I was a freshman in auto shop and Chrysler,( there was an AM General plant just down the road at the time, might have mean why it came to Penn???) brought one to the school to show off we even got to drive it around in the parking lot.I was a 16 yr. old kid and was not real impressed by the big Slow Boat at the time! Thinking back it was a once in a life time experience!!
Thank you for sharing this Steve, sad to hear Walter P. Chrysler Museum is closed. It was a great place to see a truly unique collection.
Why did the Museum close ?
+VideosByAl FCA needed the building for office space. At least, that is what they said.
Oh my, that sad :(
Steve Lehto yeah they closed the Alfa Romeo museum which in the basement had anything and everything since the first Alfa was built to keep running and maintained for many years to come. So Fiat said there wasn't enough visitors to justify keeping it open.
Rob Cossin ikr I never got to go there
V1 One...Rotate...
Yes
Positive rate... Gear up
Cross check- continuing
V-1, check...
durr durr pull up durr durr pull up
Beautiful car. Love the color.
As a prospective jet engine technician for civil aerospace, the sound of this jet engine just puts a smile on my face 😊 plus, one of the designers of this car's jet engine later went on to found Williams International, a manufacturer of jet engines for small businesses jets; I might be employed with them, who knows!
While on tour this car came to my hometown, Richland , WA, (1964 I think) and drive up beside me at a stop sign with that odd whine. Crazy
What did the cameraman think, keep it zoomed at the odometers???
A family about 1 block from me was chosen to test one of these by Chrysler and I got to see one exactly like this one driving around my neighborhood every day. It would even run on cooking oil. As a teenager at the time, we were enthralled.
A Beautiful unique car from a time gone by we'll never see again
This car is so advanced. They should go back in to production.
michael happy yes that would be awesome
It was not that advanced. Simple piston engine is much more complicated than the turbine
And they should look EXACTLY like the three running vintage Turbine cars do. Nothing beats the bodylines of vintage automotive.
Juzg - "advanced" does not equal "complicated". The Turbine engine in this car WAS quite advanced. And Piston engines have been around for a LONG time. By definition, that makes them NOT advanced.
@@stevelehto So, if the A-831 wasn't that complicated, that's another great reason the car should enter production.
So far, and tell me if I'm wrong on any of this, after all, I'm sure you're better informed about the A-831 than I am, the Turbine car has these going for it:
Relative silence, even compared to a modern piston engine
Simplicity: As you and @juzgoznasznapamiec stated, gas turbine engines are advanced, but not complex. Maybe even easy to work on?
can burn most combustible liquids: They ran these on diesel, leaded gasoline, propane, and didn't the president of Mexico run one on tequila and the French run one on perfume?
This engine would be a queen of modern gas, considering it could likely run on biodiesel or straight ethanol, with a teflon coating in the fuel system to prevent rust.
Modern materials: One of the reasons it was cancelled was supposedly lack of materials that could handle the strain and not be extremely expensive. Well, modern materials are ready! There's so much more that can be offered today, better heat resistance, more capable aerospace-grade metals that could easier withstand 50k RPM.
Or am I just blind to some huge issue these had, besides unreliability due to the lack of available materials? Three HUGE pros that would likely see sales in the millions in the modern world of electric cars, exorbitant gas prices and silenced, ultra efficient fuel engines, and Chrysler-Fiat still doesn't even try to produce them. They could install safety equipment in them and just start production, keeping the original body style, even. It would be a modern car all the way down to the core, but in an antique shell, a window to the past. But then they and Jay Leno. The third blew up, now only a static display because SOME CAR COMPANY refuses to put them back into production with a modern flair, a much larger supply chain than what they had in the 1960's, more skilled mechanics that have to deal with the bullshit that happens with modern electronics (a jet engine would probably be easier than having to deal with an ECU to be honest) and better materials. I can imagine Jay probably sweats every time he drives his, for it could be the last time it sees roadworthiness, as it was for #991231.
How tf do we not have car designs like this today? if they had that shit way back then??!! THIS LOOKS MORE FUTURISTIC THAN FURURISTIC CARS TODAY!
That would be so awesome to drive one of those turbine cars.
Darn, never even got to raise the landing gear.
Fun fact about gas turbine engines. 75% of intake air is used for cooling, 25% is used for combustion of fuel. The AGT-1500 gas turbine engine used in the M1 Abrams Tank was designed in the 1960's for use in Tractor-Trailers. It's power output is governed to 1,500 HP. They thought gas turbine truck's would run strictly on interstate highways at 80 plus MPH between distribution centers located at on and off ramps. Trailers would be disconnected and another trailer headed to another distribution center would be connected and driver's changed out. Then the EPA stepped in and ended all of that. They only wanted to deal with diesel engines and that was the end of gas turbine engines in long haul, high speed truck's. Gas turbine engines produce the least amount of pollution of any other engine type's due to the extremely high combustion temperatures produced in them.
Does the throttle have any kind of delay from the moment you press the pedal until it moves?
+Mr Me yes. If you were going to race it, you could do a brake torque: put the brake pedal down along with the gas pedal. THEN launch by letting up on the brake.
Saw one on the Trans-Canada in Alberta in 1962 en route to BC.
Steve, Thank You, for all your videos... I'm sure your '"Top 10" will ALL be above 100K views very soon!
Very cool , saw Jay Lenos turbine car. Never seen or heard of it before that , amazing design
This is amazing. I didn’t know this car existed till 10mins ago, how is fuel economy, power range and drive ability?why was it discontinued?
+piston head 1243 fuel economy wasn't great but it would run on a variety of fuels. Power was decent but drivability was great. I've driven two of them. A few things helped kill them off, one of which was manufacturing cost.
Steve Lehto I’ve love to see an updated version, and how the drivetrain works
Diesel 8290 The GE T58 Gas Turbine engine for helicopter use, circa 1950s, lightweight at 250lbs., and 1050 HP would make for a good starting point. It is currently being used in white-water racing jet boats...primarily in Canada. These aluminium lightweight jet-boats work just fine with this engine...too bad it consumes its own weight in fuel in a very short time, especially at WOT. Many individuals have succeded in transplanting these into various boats, but the noise, fuel consumption and radical weight change...making for an unstable hull...these individuals change back to conventional powerplants.
well no offense but "high fuel consumption" is only confirmed verbally with no actual proof. If everything as they say, nobody would ever destroys all the cars - it's nonsense. They obviously found cheap energy, an amazing technology, that is very reliable and used in planes these days.
Gas turbines always have a higher fuel consumption than piston engines because they lose an awful lot of energy through their hot exhaust gas. The simple reason they are commonly used in aircraft is their good power to weight ratio. Furthermore they are not suitable for cars because they react very slow to changing load.
I still can’t believe that Chrysler destroyed nearly all of the fifty five cars they built just to avoid paying a tax on them.
„My car revs 10 times as high as yours“
Expecting some Honda with 8.000 rpm but not that it was actually the case
I got to see and sit in one of these cars when I was a kid, too young to drive. They were advertised as "the car of the future." I always wondered what happened.
The car does look like it could take off!
The Turbine Indy Car in 1968 sounded just like that. It was like a vacuum cleaner when it went by. So glad I got to be there to see it. It coasted to a stop between the 3rd and 3th turns right in front of where Ii was sitting.
So cool! Love the sound. They actually muffled the sound of this car by creating a larger air box. NOW, If ever I owned one 😏, you better believe I’d be ripping that airbox off and jetting my way through the neighborhoods 😂. What a sweet ride
i'd kill to have one of these, imagine pulling into some fancy parking lot with a fancy and vintage looking car THAT SOUNDS LIKE A FUCKING PLANE
My Grandfather got to drive one of those. He came over one day and gave me a ride in it. It was cool!!!
What gorgeous styling. That dash is exquisite. But then they have that cheap green plastic key tag! Surely this car deserves better.
Have always wondered about the car's top end. Gun it, Steve.
We have the technology now to handle these systems efficiently. Bring them back.
I would love to see the fuel efficiency versus speed plot. Is it good at highway speeds? You guys drove it around with the engine idling almost all the time. Probably deplorable in-city gas mileage.
Gas turbines are ideally run at a constant speed/power. Unlike a gas piston engine at idle, the turbine still requires significant air/fuel flow to operate.
The ideal set up is a turbine-generator set up and electric drive. The maintenance costs will kill ya though. 😆
Let's this Chrysler Turbine running ;) Signed => A lot of fans, can hear this fabulous car running and take the road again :D.
This is history ...
Thanks again, for this wonderful video (a french fan).
Like to have that car saw it at the NY Worlds Fair in 1966
Just catching up on these videos Steve. Reading your book now... thanks.
I grew up in Dearborn, Mi from 1959 to 1972 and saw these driving around the neighborhood several times. Would also see Ford prototypes all the time.
I grew up in Bloomfield Hills Michigan during the 60s, saw several of these on the road. Chrysler executives would get them to drive. They were gorgeous cars and hearing them go by, as a kid was really amazing. I can still remember the sound of a jet going by. But it was a car... And that beautiful coppery colored paint. I think it was metallic, though I could be wrong about that. To this day I'll never forget the Turbine car passing by on Quarton Road. More than 50 years ago and I can still see it and hear it in my mind. Amazing car.
Products like these were Created when companies never curbed their employees' creative liberty. I seldom see innovations like these in the current times of course Tesla being an exception.
Batman's car from 60's :D Beautiful piece of history!
Ahhh the retrofuturism in this car ..
So they really did have the batmobile...
my favorite car of all time!
Bosoms & booze! There is no way in hell I could ever afford to buy one of the , maybe 4 in existence. Much less maintain it. but I love the history of this car. Such great lines!
Makes me feel like a kid again ..! Epic !
Such a cool car! A shame it will probably never see the road again, strictly parking lots where it is relatively safe.
Totally awesome! Thanks for sharing
A absolute Fascinating Piece of Engineering! Thank you for sharing this Video. I read much about this car but i dont hear the Turbine. Greetings Peter
"Atomic batteries to power... Turbines to speed!"
This is my dream car, always wanted one as a kid
Here in New Zealand there was a yellow one ..it stayed in Johnsonville in Wellington City in the mid 80s ..my friend knew exactly what it was - i didn't know what a turbine engine was i was 9 !!!
I really love the sound of that car, also the RPM is quite interesting, it can reach 60k rpm, and because of that i think that the fuel consumption is really bad.. but the sound is cool tho..
More rare than Tucker, truly uncommon experience to drive or ride in one.
It would be nice to see the performance output on it ; Floor it please !
This is so cool man
Absolutely awesome! What an Honor!
This would make a good batmobile
should be in the next Forza game
Oh man yes.
Yeah they didn't listen
30,000 rpm to the drive wheels is quite the reduction.
Thats the real Batman Car
Never Ever Ever knew a car existed that operated on a Fucking Turbine
Will it do a burnout?
Kick in that afterburner and also have the James Bond theme playing in the background.
Last I heard of the 55 built, 9 were saved - 3 were kept by Chrysler and 6 are in museums somewhere. Amazing thing is these were let loose to be driven by the public to gauge interest then returned after a period of time. How long the people kept them I'm not sure - maybe 6 months to a year, but they would run on anything that was combustible. GM built turbine powered show cars in the '50s but it was for show. Chrysler was dead serious about getting these cars into production but they ran into their financial situation in the '70s and the U.S. government who was funding this for research during that time, cancelled it in the '80s. I thought these cars were gorgeous and they remind me of the '61-63 T-Bird.
The users got them for a couple months each. Chrysler kept two but sold one to Jay Leno a few years ago. Another one is privately owned. Several of the museum cars do NOT run.
@@stevelehto It doesn't surprise me that most don't run. It still is sad though.
Batteries to power, turbines to speed.... How many miles to Gotham City?
I wonder if that one guy behind you that always rides your tail, would get his front end burnt off?
Atomic batteries for power, turbines for speed. Roger, ready to move out.
Driving around slowly in the parking lot, all I learned is that it turns left and right.
They wouldn't let us take it off road. Sorry.
Love the design but hearing that sound every day wold give me tinnitus
Couldn't find a single revving vid off this car
1:37 it sounds like an m1 abrams tank
Same type of engine just the Abrams has a lot more power
This elegant car should be the future of motoring, not electric cars. The Chrysler Turbine is probably more eco-friendly than an electric car because it doesn't require anyone to mine the materials for batteries.
Awesome, love it 😘😘😘
It feels like i'm watching a High Def video of a UFO
I've seen some russian dude stick a turbojet inside a bmw car for fun. Apparently, Chrysler thought this was a good idea
That's so wild. Crazy times back then.
Did Hoover make the turbine system?
Would computerization have made this car viable (along with advances in turbine technology)?
Hey just saw ur episode on Leno. How time has flown.
Does anyone know how these things work? Was there a purpose to developing them? It actually looks awesome.
Idling at a stop light:
Driver: chill
Engine: AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
Must have some great baffles because it sounds less like a jet and more like my wife's hairdryer.