To: laker_dad
Turbine engine? Ask Parnelli Jones how it worked out for him 41 years ago at the Indy 500.
Didn't work well for my uncle who was one of the fifty who were given Chrysler turbines back in 1963. You couldn't start them at high altitude and the engine would self destruct if you didn't do the start up routine exactly right even at sea level. They never got the high gas mileage that was promised. The best he ever got was 16 mpg.
All of that being said, it was still a fun car...sounded like a Kirby vacuum cleaner going down the road.
60 posted on
06/16/2008 11:40:20 AM PDT by
radioman
To: radioman
“...sounded like a Kirby vacuum cleaner going down the road.”
...LOL....I’d have liked to have heard that.
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