1964 Chrysler Turbine Car
Featured in the Gilmore Car Museum Display
From the JETSON'S to a real jet propelled car... 40 years ago! In 1963 Chrysler Corporation built fifty experimental turbine cars and loaned them out to over 200 "average" consumers for three-month evaluation periods. The objective was to test consumer and market reaction and to obtain service data. Only nine remain today, the rest were scrapped by the company, when it was decided the program wouldn't succeed.
Although the recommended fuel was diesel, the Turbine Car would run on ANY flammable liquid. At one point or another, Turbine Cars were run, without adjustments, on unleaded gas, kerosene, jet fuel, home heating oil, peanut oil, tequila and even Chanel No. 5 prefume!
From the operator's manual - Starting: Turn key, DO NOT PRESS ACCELERATOR PEDAL, wait for engine to make a "woosh" sound. Once the tack reads 18,000 rpm and temperature is 1,200 degrees the engine is started and you may proceed to drive.