William
02-08-2015, 10:34 AM
That most people forgot, or never heard about.
If you are a car geek, you might find these interesting. Up first, The Chrysler Turbine (Jet) car. Pretty amazing engineering for the time...
1963 Chrysler Turbine: Ultimate Edition - Jay Leno's Garage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2A5ijU3Ivs
If you don't want to watch the video...
...Just 55 Turbines were built. Chrysler held on to five for evaluation and made 50 available for testing by 203 families nationwide who were chosen from 30,000 volunteers. Each family kept the car for three months. As part of the deal, the drivers recorded impressions and mileage in little logbooks. Chrysler had a special team of mechanics on call who flew out and fixed the cars right away if anything went wrong....
...The car was the brainchild of chief engineer George Huebner, who began studying the feasibility of turbine-powered vehicles in the mid-1940s. The engine's smoothness and durability seemed to be a viable alternative to the piston engine. It has few moving parts—just fan blades on a shaft separated by a combustion chamber—one spark plug and no cooling system. A compressor at the inlet pressurizes incoming air, which then combines with fuel and ignites. The expanding charge spins the turbine section that is geared to the output shaft. The car was rated at 130 hp and 425 kb-ft of torque at stall speed, about the same as a contemporary 318-cubic-inch V8.....
http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/a11786/jay-leno-drives-one-of-the-last-chrysler-turbines/
William
If you are a car geek, you might find these interesting. Up first, The Chrysler Turbine (Jet) car. Pretty amazing engineering for the time...
1963 Chrysler Turbine: Ultimate Edition - Jay Leno's Garage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2A5ijU3Ivs
If you don't want to watch the video...
...Just 55 Turbines were built. Chrysler held on to five for evaluation and made 50 available for testing by 203 families nationwide who were chosen from 30,000 volunteers. Each family kept the car for three months. As part of the deal, the drivers recorded impressions and mileage in little logbooks. Chrysler had a special team of mechanics on call who flew out and fixed the cars right away if anything went wrong....
...The car was the brainchild of chief engineer George Huebner, who began studying the feasibility of turbine-powered vehicles in the mid-1940s. The engine's smoothness and durability seemed to be a viable alternative to the piston engine. It has few moving parts—just fan blades on a shaft separated by a combustion chamber—one spark plug and no cooling system. A compressor at the inlet pressurizes incoming air, which then combines with fuel and ignites. The expanding charge spins the turbine section that is geared to the output shaft. The car was rated at 130 hp and 425 kb-ft of torque at stall speed, about the same as a contemporary 318-cubic-inch V8.....
http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/a11786/jay-leno-drives-one-of-the-last-chrysler-turbines/
William