Chrysler Turbine Car Up Close

[Devil]

I thought you guys might like my walk around on the Chrysler Turbine Car that is owned by the Detroit Historical Society.

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[Mr70]

Very nice,thanks for posting this as I've' never seen this car up close.

[L_e_e]

A friend of mine is the guy who took the Turbine car on the PR tour across the country when he worked for Chrysler, and he still has a huge stash of all sorts of Turbine related stuff.

[Devil]

A friend of mine is the guy who took the Turbine car on the PR tour across the country when he worked for Chrysler, and he still has a huge stash of all sorts of Turbine related stuff.

That's crazy! I wonder what he has?! I've seen the brochure and model. But there is still so much to uncover.

[bergy]

I drove the GM gas turbine car from the Tech Center to the Flint motor plant. The Flint engineering and accounting folks helped us cost out the turbine engine. We showed them the car and gave a lot of them rides as a way of thanking them for their help.

[SS427]

Such a unique and very cool car. As shame these cars are locked in a storage warehouse and not in a public museum. Thanks for sharing.

[Canuck]

Such a unique and very cool car. As shame these cars are locked in a storage warehouse and not in a public museum. Thanks for sharing.

I think this is the most beautiful car ever built. Chrysler kept 9 after the other 46 were destroyed in 1966.
Jay Leno has 1
St Louis Transport Museum has one
Gilmore Museum has one
One is in private hands like Lenos
Detroit Historical has the one featured
Peterson Museum has one
Chrysler may still have 2.
Henry Ford Museum has the 9th car.
All 55 cars were offered to museums in 1966 but there were few takers. Those that got them had them delivered without engines although engines were provided in crates.

There is a gut wrenching video some of the 46 cars being destroyed in a Detroit area wrecking yard in 1966.
Chrysler claimed they had to destroy them to avoid paying import duties on the Italian built bodies. It was a muti million dollar program and the taxes would have not been significant over all. The real reason was product liability,they were in fact all experimental cars.

Here is a great site to see all things about the program.

https://www.turbinecar.com/

[Devil]

I think this is the most beautiful car ever built. Chrysler kept 9 after the other 46 were destroyed in 1966.
Jay Leno has 1
St Louis Transport Museum has one
Gilmore Museum has one
One is in private hands like Lenos
Detroit Historical has the one featured
Peterson Museum has one
Chrysler may still have 2.
Henry Ford Museum has the 9th car.
All 55 cars were offered to museums in 1966 but there were few takers. Those that got them had them delivered without engines although engines were provided in crates.

There is a gut wrenching video some of the 46 cars being destroyed in a Detroit area wrecking yard in 1966.
Chrysler claimed they had to destroy them to avoid paying import duties on the Italian built bodies. It was a muti million dollar program and the taxes would have not been significant over all. The real reason was product liability,they were in fact all experimental cars.

Here is a great site to see all things about the program.

https://www.turbinecar.com/

You're close, but there was only 7 saved.

Jay Leno has 1
St Louis Transport Museum has one
One is in private hands like Lenos
Detroit Historical has the one featured (Same One as Gilmore)
Peterson Museum has one
Chrysler may still have 2.

And most of the cars in the Detroit Historical Societies warehouse are routinely rotated through a variety of different museums. Like the Turbine being back at Gilmore for the next few months.

[Canuck]

Articles still support nine survivors. Mark Olsen has dedicated his life to the research.

[Burd]

I saw this Grand Prix at the Heritage Center, it was in the “other” building


https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2010/05/17/who-killed-the-steamturbine-powered-car/

[Devil]

Articles still support nine survivors. Mark Olsen has dedicated his life to the research.

I've talked to many individuals personally about these cars, and they all said 7 remain.

I have been fortunate in my travels to see 5 of the 7 remaining Turbine cars.

Chrysler Museum #1
https://live.staticflickr.com/3946/15593073691_eda7a66e91_c.jpg

Chrysler Museum #2
https://live.staticflickr.com/5820/30527694230_5e26724f36_c.jpg

Detroit Historical Societies
https://live.staticflickr.com/4885/45049539684_e679af15dd_c.jpg

Henry Ford Museum
https://live.staticflickr.com/5575/14715770290_dd5e94a248_c.jpg

St. Louis Transportation Museum
https://live.staticflickr.com/5726/23537416181_5d13d6ccb2_c.jpg

[Lee Stewart]

https://i.postimg.cc/y8smTtt2/untitled.png (https://postimages.cc/)

This is a scale model painted in the same livery of the full sized turbine car that was used in the 1964 movie THE LIVELY SET:

https://i.postimg.cc/28fhzgk3/4171746334776820004.jpg (https://postimages.cc/)