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mk30h
11-17-2010, 10:40 PM
Sure looks like a T-bird but cool engine.

Did this time actually use the exhaust as thrust like a jet or did it have some sort of transmission? I'd hate to be behind one of these on the highway.


http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-drive/car-life/classic-cars/chryslers-bronze-blowtorch/article1793509/
flabum1017
11-17-2010, 11:14 PM
It's got a 60,000 RPM tach...
Riverman
11-17-2010, 11:31 PM
It was a turboshaft (like a helicopter) so yes it had a transmission. There is a car and an engine on disply at the Petersen Museum in L.A.

It was a regenerative engine where the exhaust went through a heat exchanger to heat the intake air to save fuel. The Lycoming AGT1500 in the M1A1 tank works the same way.

I have a smaller version of one of those Rover engines mentioned in the article at work, hooked to a dyno.
mariah2
11-18-2010, 08:40 AM
Read the title for this forum.

General B-O-A-T-I-N-G Discusssion forum.

This belongs in Other Motorsports or the Lounge. Any moderators awake?
mr fun
11-18-2010, 10:31 AM
being Chrysler men they were enamored, and I herd of it for many years afterwards. the exhaust was directed straight onto the ground, grandpaw would hold his hand beside the cardoor and you could feel it coming out onto the ground. also there was an Elvis movie about a cross country race with one in it. and they said it could run on multiple fuels, even p-nut oil :D fun out :cool:
mk30h
11-18-2010, 12:46 PM
Read the title for this forum.

General B-O-A-T-I-N-G Discusssion forum.

This belongs in Other Motorsports or the Lounge. Any moderators awake?


Get a life
jenksam
11-18-2010, 01:42 PM
NEET SH!T IF YOU ASK ME.


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mariah2
11-18-2010, 04:08 PM
Get a life

:thumbsup:
mercdrag2.5
11-21-2010, 07:31 AM
the car is @ the henry ford museum, I seen it there this spring.
Robby321
11-24-2010, 05:43 PM
I remember in about 1967, 2 of us on motorcycles, Chicago suburbs,came to a stoplight, and this weird car in front us. Heard of the turbine, and sure as chit, its right in front of us:eek:

We had to pull too the outer sides of it, as that sucker REALLY tossed heat out the back! Yeah, looked a lot like a Tbird. He took off, we tried to follow a bit, but the heat was too damn much. :D
BUZZIN' DOZEN
11-25-2010, 06:59 AM
the car is @ the henry ford museum, I seen it there this spring.
This would make more sense, Walter P. Chrysler Museum
http://www.pbase.com/papajim_48306/image/67773738