Watched this Hagerty Drivers Foundation video on the Chrysler Turbine Car. One of the initial designers was none other than Sam Williams, who would go onto create Williams International and the long line of successful business jet engines.

Worth the 1 hour invested:
[youtube]https://youtu.be/fOIrB1fwVPc[/youtube]

I saw one at the New York World's Fair, quietly idling.

Saw one in person. It was, and remains, one of the coolest things I have ever seen.

Best,
Rich

Saw this example at the Henry Ford museum

That was a great video. I really enjoyed it. The final story/segment at the end about Project Blue-Jay was really neat.

So worth watching! Had no idea about this car - such a terrific video. Thanks for posting.

Seen the one at the Petersen Museum in LA.

Cool looking machine.

https://www.petersen.org/blog/turbine-car-facts

Andrew

Steve Lehto and Jay Leno collaborated on a book about the car-- it's excellent.

https://www.amazon.com/Chryslers-Turbin ... g=btalk-20

The final part of the show really was a great story.

When I was young, my uncle worked on this project at Chrysler and had one of these for his daily driver. This was the same time BATMAN was popular and I was convinced they were making a Batcar as I recall the cool engine sound when he visited.

Jim

Great job on reverse engineering that engine and rebuilding it! Not an easy task. Very fortunate that Jay Leno had the desire to provide the motivation and means to do that.

It's seems the car from an engineering perspective was pretty successful. They solved the overheating at starting the engine which was obviously a big problem. You can still screw this up on older turbines. The issue was cost. The engines were just too expensive to produce. Nothings has really changed all these years. There is still no such thing as a cheap turbine. Unfortunately for us piston drivers.

Excellent video, loved it! I remember the publicity surrounding these cars when I was a kid. I'm a little surprised no mention was made of the turbine powered Indy car (even though it was probably not related to the design of the Chrysler Turbine).

It was heartbreaking to watch the segment of most of these fine cars being busted up, crushed and burned. Another sad point is the destruction of all of the documentation (fabrication and assembly drawings). At least the documents should have been archived IMO.

Dan

Never heard of this car, but what a great video!