[2ndDivisionVet]

What were they paying him?

[al baby]

Other way around i bet

[Izzy Dunne]

Some chin on that wagon.

[ridesthemiles]

Same Jim Hall who ran the Pennzoil ‘Sucker Car” at Indy?

[Dr. Sivana]

Naturally it sounds like a taxiing jet even at idle, great coils of heat roiling out of exhaust vents behind the engine.

Notwithstanding the name, I betcha it doesn't get very good mileage. Jay probably has to baby that thing a bit or he'll wreck his power-train (unless he beefed that up too).

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Tail Fins!! Cool. Haven’t seen those in, what? 48 years or so?

Jet engines (Brayton cycle) have notoriously poor efficiency for the duty cycle required in ground transportation — hence, the “great coils of heat” coming out of the exhaust.

[Secret Agent Man]

not very attractive

[Minn]

I wonder if it smells like french fries.

[B-Chan]

I have long wondered why turbines aren’t used in trains, automobiles, and other motor vehicles. Turbines burn fuel constantly, and are therefore always producing power; in reciprocating engines, fuel burning starts and stops with each power cycle, making for increased complexity (fuel injection timing, linera-to-rotary power conversion, et al). Turbines also have only one moving part (the rotor) and one friction surface (the bearing), whereas reciprocating engines have plenty of opportunities for power to be lost (piston friction, incomplete combustion, mismatched detonation timing, increased number of moving surfaces in contact, etc.). A diesel-fueled turbine driving an electric generator would seem to me to be an ideal compact powerplant for vehicle applications.

[Grut]

Oh dear. Rampant Darthvaderisme!