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Turbine Cars: Past, Present, and Future
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The most famous of the turbine corner-turning racers were the Granatelli STP cars built for Indy in the late-1960s. See all 63 photos See all 63 photos Granatelli had split with Wallis, who went to...
Turbine Cars | Hemmings
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Today, General Motors, Volvo, BMW, Peugeot, Renault, Toyota, Nissan and Mitsubishi are all actively working on automotive gas turbines, trying to make them contentious with piston powerplants. Trouble is, future turbines for automobiles can't just be as good as piston engines; they have to be con-siderably better.
Milestone Moments: The Turbine-Powered Indy Car
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On March 16, 1967, Parnelli Jones drove what was described as “the nation’s first space-age racing car” when he put Andy Granatelli’s radical turbine-powered racer through its initial shakedown runs at Phoenix Int’l …
Chrysler Turbine Car - Wikipedia
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A Quick Guide to the Whereabouts of All Nine Chrysler …
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Dec 10, 2021. Steve Lehto. Chrysler built a fleet of 55 turbine-powered cars in the early 1960s. The company lent them to the public in …
The Turbine-Powered Lotus That Was So Good It Got …
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STP had entered a different turbine-powered car in the 1967 Indy 500, whose victory was spoiled by a failed ball bearing three laps before the finish line. So Lotus co-founder Colin Chapman and his...
A Quick Guide to the Whereabouts of All Nine Chrysler …
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Interestingly, Chrysler sent each museum crated turbine engines. The folks at the St. Louis Museum of Transportation swapped the crate motor for the nonfunctional one in the car and got it running.
Chrysler Turbine Car: Why the Government Made Chrysler …
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The automaker eventually had the Ghia company produce the Chrysler Turbine Car cars in Italy, which is where the problems started. Unfortunately, Chrysler destroyed almost all of the produced versions of the Chrysler Turbine Cars. The government wanted to charge import taxes on the cars made by Ghia, which would have been incredibly expensive. Chrysler could …
The Olson’s Chrysler Turbine Car Story – And Other Hot Links To …
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The roof of the Turbine Car looks like it was lifted directly from a ’63-’66 Valiant Signet hardtop (which isn’t necessarily a bad thing). I had no idea that the 55 Turbine Cars that were built were spread out among 203 testers. Evidently, 148 families got ‘used’ Turbine Cars. Reply RICHARD TRUESDELL Posted January 25, 2022 at 8:40 AM
Turbine Engine Hardships | DrivingLine
https://www.drivingline.com/articles/turbine-cars-are-cool-but-heres-why-they-never-made-it-to-showrooms/
Rover got out of the turbine-powered passenger car business when it decided to instead focus its efforts on applying the technology to race cars. British Racing Motors would field a Rover turbine design at Le Mans for several years beginning in 1963, but the program was eventually abandoned.
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