The 1963 Chrysler Turbine Car

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Updated on February 10th, 2021

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, The 1963 Chrysler Turbine Car

50 of these experimental Gas Turbine cars were built to test the feasibility of this new power source. During a three year period, 200 Chrysler customers were given the car for three months each for a real-world test. The car sounded like a jet plane when it drove by and the sound effect was duplicated by many science fiction shows as the sound that cars of the future would make.

, The 1963 Chrysler Turbine Car

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