[laker_dad]

Turbine engine? Ask Parnelli Jones how it worked out for him 41 years ago at the Indy 500.

[Red Badger]

This ain’t your daddy’s Oldsmoturbine......

[Abathar]

Just think of how much technology has come in those 41 years too. I really hope he pulls this off and wipes the big three’s face in it.

[Cobra64]

Turbine engine? Ask Parnelli Jones how it worked out for him 41 years ago at the Indy 500.

[radioman]

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.

[Grut]

Turbine engine? Ask Parnelli Jones how it worked out for him 41 years ago at the Indy 500.

Pretty well, actually. The car led most of the race and lost because some obscure part in the transmission failed on lap 197, IIRC. USAC was so impressed that they immediately imposed crippling restrictions on turbine cars to protect the established owners' investments.