1964 Chrysler Turbine Car
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On “My Car Story” we're in Rosemont IL at the Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals on 11-21-19.
We’re looking at a 1964 Chrysler Turbine Car in Turbine Bronze Paint. The car has the factory installed turbine engine.
The car's Care Taker is Detroit Historical Museum and Dave Marchioni is Care Taker for the car today. Dave shares the car was received by the Museum in 1968. Dave shared when the engine was normally running, it would run at 15,000 RPMs and can go up to 60,000 RPM’s.
To see details on the Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals show, go to www.MCACN.com
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Very cool! I saw one twice in S. Florida. Once at a shopping center where they were demonstrating that they could balance a coin placed on it's edge on the motor and once when they were cruising the local drive-ins.
We thought the future had arrived. Little did we know that in only 50 years we could have a Prius. They have been promising us flying cars and we got the Prius....
LOL
Happy to read your memories of the one you saw :-)
THE most unique car to ever grace American highways. Over 50 years old and still gorgeous. Jay Leno has a running one of these. Great shots Lou
Hi FUBAR Model Yard
, Enjoy reading your comment :-) Thank you for viewing and sharing, Lou
Screw Jay Leno.
@@rudolphguarnacci197 jay has a better mic then lou
@@bertjetolberg103
That's about it.
@@bertjetolberg103 -Jay also made a million dollars a night for “The tonight show”. I’ll take Lou’s “My Car Story” over that and his current car show…And Lou does it for us for FREE! As I always say, “Thx again Lou!”, your the best when it comes to classic cars hands down!
This is one of my most favorite cars from Chrysler, and the color fits.
Happy to read this car is a favorite :-)
Lou. I had the pleasure of riding in one of these in the summer of 1966 as car crazy kid. My mom's best friend called her on a Sunday to tell her father, a prominent attorney in New York, was visiting. We go to the house and one off these incredible cars was there. He said he was borrowing it. I got in and he gave four of us a ride. I remember the beautiful orange seats and the jet engine sound. I doubt he used Chanel number 5 , but I will never forget that day as a 10 year old. I have Steve Lehto's book on this car and he signed it for me. Chrysler was an engineering company far more than anyone else. A piece of history. Jay Leno is the original owner of his. Awesome job as always Lou.
Hi George Mattar, Happy to read you're 1st hand experience :-) Thank you for viewing and sharing, Lou
Chrysler's 1964 Turbine Car is a beauty! Thanks for posting your video Lou as well as all your excellent videos!
Happy to read you enjoy this car JackFlemingFan
:-) Appreciate the kind words. It's encouraging, Lou
This car was in the front Detroit Historical Museum window for decades, This is the only car you've reviewed I've seen in person.
Happy to read this is a car you know well :-)
After all these years, still a beautiful automobile.
Glad to read you enjoy this design :-)
The ultimate Mid-century modern automobile. Bravo!
Hi SolamenteVees, Happy to read you enjoy this one. Thought you'd like to see this video, and the cars running too, Lou th-cam.com/video/uh1Kt14Bido/w-d-xo.html
Growing up in Southern California, I had a neighbor, Max, who used to work for Chrysler Corporation. I remember my father telling me that Max once brought home a Turbine Car and that Max ran it on kerosene. It must've been somewhere between 1965 and 1967, as I was too young to remember.
Hi Aspie Runner, Happy to read this car / video brings back memories for you :-) Thank you for viewing and sharing, Lou
Fascinating - Detroit in the 60's was flying high and no mistake - what a car, what a story . . .
Hi VonRyansExpress, Happy to read "Fascinating" :-) Good news! Here is one more I think you'll enjoy, Lou th-cam.com/video/uh1Kt14Bido/w-d-xo.html
@@loucostabile Thanks - I will take a look now 😊
You’re Channel is an Archive of Underrated motoring, An Archive.
I love that
Hi Isaacs Random Videos, High praise for this Channel :-) I hope more people over time will find it and enjoy the MANY cars on this Channel you and I enjoy. Lou
Lou gets all the cool ones . Thanks for posting .
Hi Bud Lee, Happy to share this cool one with you :-) You're welcome, Lou
I'm from Detroit and this is one car I have seen in person in the Detroit Historical Museum..
Hi Kirk, Very nice. Stay tuned and you'll see the one at the Gilmore Museum in MI too. There will be 6 Episodes starting this Sunday, and each Sunday, and I think there car is in Episode 2, Lou
I built this car as a model when I was a kid. Now, I have a reissue in the shelf to build again. Coolness.
Glad to read this car brings back nice memories :-)
Your channel just keeps getting better, Lou.
Thank you Dan's Music :-)
What a cool car cool idea love the tail lights and trunk perspective and profiles absolutely stunning
Happy to read your comment :-)
Lou,Lou,Lou.
Awesome video.
Jay Leno has one of these
WOW
C Moore, C Moore, C Moore, High praise for this episode :-) And Jay Leno's I believes runs too. That would be cool to take that for a ride! Thank you for viewing and sharing, Lou
ah man, you are definetly after my own heart, i always loved these cars, everything about them...EVERYTHING..watched the "lively set" when i was a kid, was foaming at the mouth then, outstanding itemized review of the car, im glad it was you who did this video Lou...leno says they run about like a 318-car, but i thought they would run on gas just fine.. just not as efficiently...kutgw!!!
High praise for this episode :-) Glad you're along for the ride.
Another great video! These are real time machines. Thanks Lou!
Happy to take you back with me :-) You're welcome Jeff.
If you were interested in car engineering, The Chrysler Corperation was the company you would want to be working for in the 60’s. Chrysler was always looking into the future or the next best thing including the 426 hemispherical engine they would release around the same time. Thx Lou!
Hi Dave, Thank you for viewing and sharing, Lou
This is one of those cars that you ask yourself WHAT IF they actually manufactured and sold these to the public. It still looks good after all these years, Chrysler in those days had the best engineers.
Would be a good "What if" :-)
Give it to Lou to find another Chrysler turbine car! Cheers to you Lou!
Hi Brady Dog, Fun car to share with you and thank for the kind words on the "find" :-) Lou
Wow does this evoke a long buried memory! In ‘64 (‘65?) I was 13 and my parents took me to look at an apartment in Tiburon California (we lived in San Francisco). The salesman had a model Turbine car, maybe 1:18, that I drooled over. He handed it to me as we left. I had it for years but have no clue now as to it’s fate. I must have disassembled and reassembled it a hundred times. It may well have been a factor in me ultimately being a mechanical engineer and working some on steam turbines in shipyards. Thanks Lou for another fantastic video and sweet memory.
Hi Mountain Climber, Happy to read this car brings back sweet memories for you :-) Thank you for viewing and sharing, Lou
Models were passed out to all families that were selected to test drive these Turbine Cars, for a 3-month period.
Models were 1:25 scale. JoHann also sold unassembled models, thru our local hobby shops, etc. I remember building one years ago, but it's unfortunately been lost to time.
What a great piece of history !! The closest we'll get to that now day is wind powered !!! Thanks Lou !
Hi Gary, Happy to share this car with you :-) You're welcome, Lou
I wish they sold them to the public.
The 66 Charger was supposed to be the first Turbine car.
That would be fun to have in the garage :-)
@@loucostabile I would drive it. On occasion.
I saw that car in person at the Walter P. Chrysler Museum , and although it was high up on a carousel, you couldn't believe the proportions of that entire rear taillight assembly (truly huge); something that really can't be conveyed on video. However, I never got to see that full-length center console...thanks Lou!
Hi mitchlu, Happy to read this car / video brings back memories for you :-) Glad to share the center console and you're welcome, Lou
Very interesting I’ve never heard of these before.
Happy to read that you learned about this car :-)
An amazing piece of history and artistry!
Happy to share this fun find with you ImTheDaveman :-)
Love it. One of my favorite Chryslers.
Happy to read you "Love it" :-)
Your car selection is very interesting. I installed 12v power and show lighting to one of these turbines at the 1979 Miami Beach Convention Center Auto Show, I've never seen one ever again. Same Copper color, BTW.
Hi Chris, Happy to read you appreciate the selection of cars on this Channel :-) Thank you for viewing, sharing and I believe you're going to see many more cars on this Channel you'll enjoy. Hope you Subscribe, and hit the "bell" so you can see all the cars when they are uploaded on this TH-cam Channel, Lou
Took couple behind the scenes picture of you filming a Corvette for your video today, was cool....
Thank you :-)
Mid century, space age, futuristic beauty.
Perhaps that’s where the original Batman (Adam West) 1966 tv series producers got the idea for the “Atomic Turbine Engine” Batmobile....who knows!
Hi Guillermo Garraton, Hmmmm, you might be right on the Batmobile engine thoughts. Lou
I remember Robin's line, "Turbines to speed.." I believe you're right.
Saw one of these as a kid in our local Chrysler dealership and it was roped off. But never saw one in this detail. This was a great story Lou. I do remember these growing up yes. I know he said they came in only one color but I swear the one we had here was a turqouis blue color I swear to it but hey I was just a little falla when it was in Canton Ohio as a kid. Thanks for sharing Lou!
Hi Steve Flad, Happy to read you enjoy the details of this episode :-) You're welcome, Lou
Super cool car. I wish they had cars like this now. If I were getting low on fuel, I could stop at a liquor store and get some Jack Daniel's. 🤣🤣
Hi James, Happy to read you enjoy this "Super cool car" :-) Lou
Be cool to drive one today. Thanks for sharing Lou
You're right, I'd enjoy a ride in this car :-) You're welcome Big Charlie's Model Garage
Simply amazing styling on these, shame they don't run anymore, but great to see it anyway. Thx for sharing Lou!
Hi D Wnright
, Glad to read your amazed by this car :-) Lou
Love this Turbine, Lou totally Awesome and thanks for this cool video. :-)
Hi Ed B, Happy to read you "Love this Turbine" :-) My pleasure, and you're welcome, Lou
Lou , that reset box is related to the Turbine engines used in a Helicopter . The engine has limitations for heat where fuel intake should be below 150 degrees as a Cold-Start but trying to restart it when hot is tricky . The starter would drive Turbine with Fuel-Off to cool down the Turbine Output Temp ( TOT on the chopper gauge ) and it is usually a 30 second break before alowing fuel in .
That's the short version to explain the box under the hood. If the driver was in charge and treated it like a normal car to just turn the key and go .....the damage could be anywhere from a $1000 inspection to $50,000 to repair or just replace the engine.
Look like Chrysler accounted for the stop and go use to put the box where the engine can buy 30 seconds to cool down .
When the car is moving there's a steady flow of air where the exhaust finds its heat level, but the starting up while still hot doesn't have the RPM's for that air flow to draw off heat .
Passenger jets have about 45 seconds at Full Throtle during take-off to get airborn and claim into thinner air as they go faster to cool off the engine.....if not , the Blades will melt from the heat since the air is thick at ground level and heats up with friction as we saw with returning space capsules needing a heat shield .
There was a story going around that one of the cars loaned out for testing wouldn't turn off when the person got home
and it melted their driveway from the engine heat before the Chrysler person got there to shut it down . Once the sparkplug/ignitor
start the fuel burning it's like a diesel engine where you cut off the fuel to stop it or hold on tight until you run out of fuel .
Hi Gary wood, Thank you for viewing and sharing your knowledge about this car :-) Lou
Great video Lou. Have a good weekend and A Happy and safe Thanksgiving 🦃
Thank you fordsrule35
Wishing you a good weekend and restful Thanksgiving :-)
I wonder what Chrysler did to disable the car? Shouldn't be too hard to get it going again
Not sure, and agree it would be fun to hear it start and run :-)
Great car Lou, amazing how much it looks like a T-bird thanks for sharing and you know"Howdy from Texas 😁"!!
Hi Greg from TX, Happy to read you think this is a "Great car" :-) Me too, Lou
I have the little promo model of this car from chrysler still to this day was my fathers god rest his soul,i have always been infactuated with this car.
The 1st edition Model Kits go for a good price along with the White race car version based on the Movie he spoke of . All of the Jo-Han Turbine Kits came in a plastic that matched the color of the car as did the Promo's that sold .
Later on the Kits were moulded in white , but this car was special for model builder because all Hinged areas on the car were also on the model for the doors , trunk and hood that opened.
The chrome pieces from Jo-Han were the best I've seen for detail and finish , other makers forced you to get bumpers replated if you built them for Model shows to win an award.
Happy to share this car you & your Father enjoy :-) Thank you for viewing and sharing.
Amazing 😀
Hi Michael Coffey, Happy to read you find this one "Amazing" :-) Me too, Lou
@@loucostabile 😀
One nice looking, well thought out and engineered..,
I know I hate to have to try and find a part for it.. lol
👍🏼
Hi ADAM HENSON, Happy to read you enjoy the looks of this car, and yes the parts bin for this one might be empty :-) Lou
Great offering here ! Thank You !
Charger Daytona recently. A fan of course but did see a Super Bird fairly regularly in the late '70s.
Turbine,,,,only car that mystified me as much was the Olds Toronado when I was I kid..
too bad this example Turbine is nf. Still a beauty.
Hi glen kepic, Happy to read you enjoy seeing this car :-) My pleasure sharing with you, and you're welcome, Lou
Weird. In was a freshman in college in 1964 when a Chrysler demo team arrived out side of the Student Union with this turbine car. The gave a pitch, lets us look and sit inside, popped the hood to look at the turbine engine, and would start it up periodically to demonstrate how quiet and smooth running the engine was. They's balance a quarter on edge on the hood and rev up the engine to show that the quarter remained on its edge.
After a couple of days, they left. I never heard of it again until this video. This car looks exactly like the one they had at the college including the same color.
Hi BMF6889, Happy to read this car brings back memories of the car you remember from college :-) Thank you for viewing and sharing, Lou
"rotates faster than a general gas engine does"...understatement of the century ! Sweet ride.
Hi Aussie BMW, Happy to read your comment :-) Glad to read you enjoy this "Sweet ride" :-) Lou
All great designs remained back in 1960's. Now we've got the CyberTruck.
Happy to read you're on the right Channel of 1960's designs :-)
A neat idea that was WAY WAY ahead of its time...
Happy to read you enjoy this car :-)
Keep them coming!!
2000 Degrees!! This thing could melt steel!!
:-)
This '64 Turbine Bronze beauty was Chrysler's 5th generation turbine car. Chrysler began its experimental turbine in the early '50s, and Gen 1 was a '54 Plymouth turbine car, followed by '55 Plymouth, '60 Plymouth, '62 Plymouth Fury and Dodge Dart, then this '64 beauty, then in a '67 Coronet, and 7th - and final - generation turbine in a concept car developed with input from US Dept. of Energy. Issues of gas mileage, exhaust heat, drivability and emissions were constantly being tweaked and improved with each successive generation. Last on this list, that was never fully resolved, was California emissions, primarily because Mother Mopar redirected its internal engineering efforts to respond to Congressional legislators' reconfiguration of the auto industry to meet new more stringent anti-smog standards. There's a great book - "Chrysler's Turbine Car - The Rise and Fall of Detroit's Coolest Creation" by Steve Lehto, with Forward by Jay Leno, that's available online - highly recommended! A quote from this book - "Many of the engineers from the turbine program were pulled out of their departments and reassigned to work on reducing tailpipe emissions from piston-engine cars." This in response to the 1970 Clean Air Act.During this '64-'65 user program, a Chrysler engineer would meet each new user at the start of his/her 3-month period, to educate them on how to operate the car. If there was a mechanical malfunction, and engineer would fly out from the factory and, if needed take the car back to Detroit to refit a new engine. The 'down-time' from a malfunction did not extend the user's 3-month user period. As a 15-year old car-crazed kid growing up in the Chicago south side Beverly neighborhood, I saw one of these beauties cruising near me twice. But I could never get close enough for an upfront and personal look.
Hi Opera, Thank you for viewing and sharing your knowledge :-) Hope you Subscribe, and hit the "bell" so you can see all the cars when they are uploaded on this TH-cam Channel, Lou
Saw this car at the 1964 worlds fair, you could stand on line and get a ride in it.
Hi Lothar Funke, Happy to read this car / video brings back memories for you :-) Hope you see many more cars on this TH-cam Channel you enjoy, Lou
Swear i have met this dave gentlemen somewhere before as i am also in michigan very close to where he works. He looks and sounds so familiar.
When you see him again, you can mention the video :-)
Will you be at the show on Sunday? I’m headed over there that day and would like to shake your hand. Another great video. 👍
Hi R8cer Ex, Thank you for the kind words on the video, and when you meet Dave let him know you saw the video :-) I'm not scheduled for this Sunday, but please say hello when you see me at a car show, Lou
I was going to college at Jacksonville University in Jacksonville, FL and saw one of these turbines on the road. It was something to see. It looked exactly like that with the same color. Seems one of the problems with it was its really bad gas mileage. I suspect they were interesting to drive because you were essentially driving a jet engine automobile. You didn't want to get too close to the exhaust because it could melt plastic or cook your hot dog. Might be great (and pretty expensive) on a picnic.
Hi Alex Holub, Glad to read this car / video brings back memories :-) Thank you for viewing and sharing, Lou
The man said the cars averaged 150,000 miles in two years, not just 150.
Correct.
The front looks like the rear of a '62 T-Bird, I used to own one. Jay Leno owns one that he really drives!
Hi Clark Griswold, Happy to read you see design ques from a car you used to own :-) Be nice to talk to Jay Leno and get a ride in his, Lou
@Lou Costabile Sorry to correct you Lou...He said 150,000 not 150 miles as the average use in 2 years. Great video as always.
Hi Max, Yes, I said 150 :-) Thank you for viewing and appreciate the encouragement, Lou
My Uncle Sam used to tell me about those cars, he had seen one when it was brand new or just a couple years old.
Happy to share the car Uncle Sam remembers :-)
@@loucostabile how many of those cars were built in 1964?
History machine!! Sure been neat if this was develop for few years got into real production!!
Hi Scotty Jones, Happy to share this "History machine!!" with you :-) Lou
I've seen it at the Gilmore Car Museum.
Happy to read you're able to see this one :-)
@@loucostabile , the one at Stahl's Car Museum runs, along with Jay Leon's.
I've never seen one in person it's a shame they disabled it that would so so cool to take it for a drive
Hi larry, 1st time I'm seeing one live, and SO happy I could share it with you :-) Please make sure if you like the video to click on the "thumbs up" too. Thank you, Lou
Lou is that mica flecks in the paint? Can you imagine if that car had an electric powertrain?
Hi ron, Not sure about the paint. If it was built today, I could see an electric power train, Lou
Yep yep yep yep yep!
:-)
I wonder how many of these still exist?.. I know Jay Leno has one as well....
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Air Cooled!! Seems like having a very hot engine and exhaust would demand a liquid coolant.
Hi Steve, Good point. Thank you for viewing, sharing, and I hope you see many more cars on this Channel you enjoy, Lou
It's mind blowing to see this much technology engineered into a Detroit car in 1964. What happened?
Not sure.
Chrysler and GM tried to develop a turbine-powered car in the 80s. They still went into the same problems found in this 60's car: the turbine engine doesn't like to work on variable speeds as cars are required to. Either in airplanes, electrical generation systems or big sea vessels, turbines work at fairly constant rpm. Eventually, the Chrysler system used a small turbine-powered electric generator that provided energy to electric motors (essentially an electric car with no batteries). And GM developed he Chevrolet Express, a fully operational concept car made for sustained high speed in specially designed roads: www.conceptcarz.com/vehicle/z4903/Chevrolet-Express-Concept.aspx
Jay Leno has one and runs it around..
Cool !
To disable this car from running should be a felony.
Sure would be fun to hear it. I agree.
Truly amazing vehicle, turbine makes me think batmobile lol
I can understand why you'd stay that :-)
The Curator said 150,000 miles, but Lou said 150 miles... huh?
:-0
I think jay leno has a running car ?
I think you're right.
It seems to me that Chrysler used quite a few styling ideas from these Turbine Cars on their mid 60s cars....
I think you're right.
Elwood Engel replaced Virgil Exner (think 1955-1962 "Forward Look" cars) at Chrysler in 1961. So there's the strong styling cues in this Turbine Car that we also see in the '61-'63 T-Birds. Styling cues carried by Engel in the later Chrysler cars into the mid-'70s.
Interesting concept but the gas mileage on these turbine cars being a little worse than the average car at the time and Chrysler hit financial problems at this time so it wasn't practical for them to keep throwing money at the project. What's crazy is Chrysler offered these to museums and hardly anyone at the time wanted them so most of them got crushed!
Happy to read this one is interesting :-) Thank you for viewing and sharing your knowledge.
A jet with no wings how fast wow need wings though to dangerous for me as I only do speed limit mostly lol
Hi Terry Davis, Thank you for viewing and sharing :-) Lou
Actually, its power output was comparable to the 318.
I don't own the car but I own the original brochure.
That's a nice piece to have too.
Jay Leno turbine car runs and drives.
That would be a fun opportunity to video his car :-)
All the keys were the same for these cars.
Hi William, Thank you for viewing and sharing your knowledge. Hope you see many more cars on this TH-cam Channel you enjoy. Please subscribe, and hit the "bell" so you can see all the cars when they are uploaded on this TH-cam Channel, Lou
Now We(USA) gotta ask ourselves, WHY the HELL didn't this Car go into mass production?.....We wouldn't have to go to War with NOBODY for Oil. Turbines and Teslas would free the USA from those Oil Barons!!....Am I'm Trippin'?...or Am I making Sense!!! ???
HI TheOneJPtv, Thank you for viewing and sharing your thoughts. Hope you see many more cars on this TH-cam Channel you enjoy. Please subscribe, and hit the "bell" so you can see all the cars when they are uploaded on this TH-cam Channel, Lou
I thought only jay Leno owned this
I think his is the only one that still runs.
Nine still exist. Leno's, and the one at the St. Louis Museum of Transportation, are the 2 still acknowledged to run.
Jay Leno has an actual running example of the Chrysler Turbine car. This one is all show, and no go! I think that it's a shame that Chrysler deliberately disabled the engines in the museum cars, and making these cars totally lame! I was not at all impressed by the fact that this car doesn't even run anymore, and it's all for show, all un the name of greed from Big Oil!
Hi Michael, You're right, this one is just for show. Lou
Lou getting video bombed.
Sounds like a good thing :-)
No Lou. 150,000 miles in two years. Sigh. Down goes the audio.
:-0
It can have the original tires, who cares? The other survivors can still jet down the freeway!
To his point, the tire whitewalls are cool with a turbine insert.
Can you tell us where we can see one that actually runs???
Nope!
Jay Leno has one. look on the you tubes.
Jay Leno has a running one I understand, and might be the only running of the Turbine Cars left.
Looks like a T-bird and a dodge coronet had a baby 🤮
T Net :-)
Nocar
Turbine Car.
Lou is that mica flecks in the paint? Can you imagine if that car had an electric powertrain?
Hi Ron, Not sure about the paint, and if it was built today, yes, probably a electric power train. Thank you for viewing and sharing, Lou