1963 Chrysler Turbine Car concept

First staged in 1901, the Chicago Auto Show is the largest auto show in North America and has been held more times than any other auto exposition on the continent. This year marks the 116th edition of the Chicago Auto Show. Chrysler Corp.'s experimental Turbine Car appeared at the 1964 Chicago Auto Show.

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A classic car connaisseur tells the interesting story of the 30 year development of a full scale production car with an airplane engine, the Chrysler Turbine.

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The Turbine Engine. The real innovation in the Chrysler Turbine Concept was the engine. It featured the fourth-generation of the company's research into liquid-fueled turbine engines and could run at up to 44,500 revolutions per minute. It was capable of burning diesel fuel, unleaded gasoline, kerosene, vegetable oil, or even JP-4 jet fuel.

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The objective of the Chrysler Turbine program was to test consumer and market reaction to turbine power and to obtain service data and driver experience with the Turbine cars under a wide variety of conditions. Automotive Industries magazine cover featuring Elwood Engel

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The Chrysler Turbine Car is an experimental two-door hardtop coupe powered by a turbine engine and manufactured by Chrysler from 1963 to 1964. The bodywork was constructed by Italian design studio Carrozzeria Ghia and Chrysler completed the final assembly in Detroit.

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Hagerty Drivers Foundation To make the Chrysler Turbine behave like users expected cars to behave, throttle response and fuel supply also had to be radically altered. What engineers did not have to deal with, though, was vibration. A turbine engine's internal parts only rotate; they do not reciprocate.

1963 Chrysler Turbine

The Chrysler Turbine Car was an experimental concept car as it never reached full production. Manufactured from 1963 until 1964, the Turbine car was only ever tested and used as a prototype, even if members of the public could test it.

1963 Chrysler Turbine

The Plymouth XNR was designed by Virgil Exner late into a storied career that included work at GM, Studebaker, and finally Chrysler where he created this two-seat concept intended to spawn a Mustang/Corvette competitor for Plymouth.

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The gas turbine relates to the jet engine, patented by England's Frank White in 1930. Rolls-Royce speeded the development of jet fighter planes, which came too late to significantly affect World War II but which proved decisive in Korea.

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On May 14, 1963, at the Essex House hotel in New York City, Chrysler unveiled a turbine car that wasn't a prototype. It was the first of a 50-car run of identical, shimmering-bronze.

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The first concept to come out of Engel's studios was the famed Turbine, which debuted on 14 th May, 1963. The Turbine was a soaring tribute to Chrysler's renowned technical prowess and new found design direction. The bronze painted automobile was a sensation and generated plenty of free media for Chrysler.

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A Chrysler Turbine car silhouetted by light coming through garage door windows. By Brian Corey (author). A pre-production version of the Chrysler Turbine Car, an experimental coupe powered by a turbine engine, debuted on this day in 1962 at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City.

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Here we see the Chrysler Turbine concept car designed by Ghia driving around at the 2021 Concours d'elegance of America. At one point, you can hear the turbi.

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Among them, Chrysler first came up with a turbine-engined car in 1954 by dropping a turboshaft unit into a standard Plymouth road car. Things got more sophisticated, until in 1961.

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If any car deserves to be called iconic, it's the Chrysler Turbine, which aside from its obvious technical advances is also a uniquely handsome automobile. "Styling was done in-house, overseen by the new design chief, Elwood Engel," the dealer explains.