SW17LS

Its totally ridiculous.

mmarshall

Moving on, one car that would have perhaps been a lot more innovative than it actually turned out to be was the Chrysler Turbine car of the early 60s, although it is obvious that it had a lot of Ford Thunderbird influence in its styling. Turbines operated even more smoothly than the noted Mazda Rotary-engines, operated on cheap fuel (essentially kerosene,) and were very simple, with few moving parts. But the expense of production, need for minutely-small tolerances of aircraft-grade in the turbine-construction, atrociously-bad fuel-mileage, and slow-acceleration at low engine speeds until RPMs built up pretty much doomed any further development.

tex2670

A term that was born as an insult. Doesn't matter who invented it.

Toys4RJill

Hey MM.

look what we saw today. It was sold

mmarshall

Thanks for posting, Jill. I got to sample one just like that in 1969, as a teen-ager, right after I had gotten my license. My Dad worked for Philco-Ford at the time, and, even though he liked Plymouth Valiants as his personal daily-drivers, he would bring home company-exec Mercurys and Lincolns sometimes after work for the night. I got to sample and test-drive the 1969 Continental that the company Vice-President used. Unbelievable Magic-Carpet ride and refinement..it was like piloting a battleship-sized soundproofed cocoon.