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’63 Chrysler Turbine

Friday, 2 August 2019, 16:49 BFH Uncategorized 26

Interesting historic piece about the 1963 Chrysler Turbine (Typhoon). There are only 2 left. Jay Leno owns one.

Great stuff here.

ht/ jd hasty

26 Comments on ’63 Chrysler Turbine

  8. Besides the 2 in Leno’s & Frank Kleptz’s collections, there are actually 9 more. 6 have the engines deactivated & are in various museums, 2 more functional ones are in the WPC museum & the 3rd is in the Museum of Transportation in St. Louis. This article is on the history of Chrysler’s turbine engine & on the 1963’s themselves, along with another actual car they made in 1977.

    https://worldhistoryproject.org/1963/chrysler-turbine-car-is-first-produced

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  9. @Jethro AUGUST 2, 2019 AT 5:24 PM
    “I remember hearing a story of one of the test drivers running out of gas and emptying a fifth of whisky in the tank to drive home.”

    Only if you were no more than a block away; these things got abysmal fuel mileage.

  12. I preferred the 1963 Ford Galaxie 500 XL fastback, with a 427 High Performance V8 way back then; I was only able to get one with a 390 (375 HP) but it was and still is my favorite car. Yes, It did look like the ’63 Thunderbird.

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  15. That water glass on the top to shoe hoe smooth reminds me of the 1971 Mazda RX2 and 1973 RX3 I had when in my 20s. You could do the same with a glass on top of the air cleaner, they ran smoother as they were revived up. The secondary on the 4 barrel carb kicked in at around 70 mph in fourth gear.
    Only problem was the engine seals went out ar around 40K miles.

    I’d like free access to Jay’s garage to borrow a car a day for a month or so.

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  17. I was drooling over 1970 – 1974 Dodge Challenger, but thought $4,000 was too expensive.
    I’ve seen Challenger hemis go for $500,000 or more on Barrett-Jackson. Of course those were virtually new almost never driven cars.

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  20. One of the Big 3 designed, built, and tested a nuclear powered car in the 1950’s.

    The main problem foreseen was with collisions and having nuclear fuel spilled out from them and killing entire neighborhoods.

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  21. Back in the early 60’s I got a woody for the Studebaker Avanti. The last one I saw was about 10 years ago cruising around my neighborhood.

    It was ahead of its time style-wise.

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  22. Someone in my hometown had one of them.Of course, it was that copper-ish orange.
    At the time it was considered that these would be mass produced in\ the near future.

    Now I consider being fortunate at actually seeing one of these historical automotive rarities in person.

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  23. I actually saw one of those Chrysler turbos on a test drive down 29th St. on Spokane’s S. hill by my house in the mid 60’s. I only saw it once but it was a real cool looking car. I am also very partial to mid 30’s Chrysler Airflows which I think is one of the best cars that Chrysler ever built but was too advanced for the time when they built it. I’ve seen a few of those but they are so rare now that you only see them in Auto shows or sold by Barret-Jackson where a beautifully restored one sold a few years ago for over $400,000. And my favorite car was my parents 1963 Dodge station wagon, I loved that car and got to drive it quite a bit after I got my first drivers license in 1969.

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  24. On the Ford’s with the 390’s…

    The old man bought a new 63′ Country Squire with the 390 and left on a fishing trip to the Boundary Waters without it being more than a couple of days old. Filled the tank with gas and him and his buddies took off. Three to four miles to the gallon. Swear the ports on the quad were bigger than anything before or after.

    Would pass anything on the road, but a gas station. Quickly traded it in on a 64 Galaxie 500 with the 289 and three on the tree that I smashed up. Was not happy with me on that one.

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