Chrysler Corporation Turbine Car

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Chrysler Corporation Turbine Car

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Item No: arcd02520
Title: Chrysler Corporation Turbine Car
Media Type: Photographic Prints
Source: Automobile Reference Collection
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CHRYSLER CORPORATION

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NEW STYLING FOR NEW POWER is embodied in the limited production Chrysler Corporation Turbine Car. Fifty of these cars are scheduled to be produced in the current phase of the Chrysler turbine program. They will distributed, beginning this fall, to selected users under a no-charge use agreement as part of Chrysler Corporation's consumer research program. Smooth, scupltured lines of the new turbine car give it a contemporary personality all its own. Roof of the car is black vinyl covered. Over-all length of the Chrysler Corporation Turbine Car is 201.6 inches. It has a 110-inch wheelbase. The latest Chrysler Corporation turbine engine delivers 130 horsepower, equivalent in over-all car performance to a V-8 piston engine of more than 200 horsepower, according to Chrysler turbine engineers. The car was styled and engineered by Chrysler Corporation and hand-crafted by Ghia of Italy.


Creation Year: 1964

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