Chrysler Turbine car 

Beautiful car, inside and out. They definitely made the “turbine” design elements throughout the car. Too bad they didn’t continue development. Most car companies destroy prototypes. Sad but true. I wonder how cleanly these would run on Willie Nelson Bio-diesel? Just think if Chrysler had made the regular production Chryslers look like this they probably would have sold all they could make.

I saw a turbine car in 1064 it was in a Ford Thunderbird. The car was at O'Daniel Dodge in Louisville, KY. Everyone was amazed at how smooth, no vibration from this engine.

I've always been fascinated by the Turbine car!!! Thanks for showcasing it & congratulations on hitting 5,000 subscribers!!! 👍👍🙂

When I was in high school in 1963, I actually saw this car in person at a car show held at a mall in Santa Clara, CA. It was unbelievably so amazing back then. I loved the tail lights. It made all other cars look old and behind the times. The ONLY car to me that came close in style was the 1962 and 1963 THUNDERBIRD. ESPECIALLY the rear.

Great coverage lovely to see teh detail you cover so well!

Hi Justin, I realize that you produced this video 5 months ago, I stumbled on this video after watching your 1964 Lincoln continental In-depth look and this is a late entry. This video is the BEST Chrysler Turbine car video that I haver seen. If the car had went into regular production, it would have been meant to compete with the Ford Thunderbird, Buick Rivera and Oldsmobile Toronado, (high end personal luxury). When ever a car has a RPM gauge (tachometer) that is in the same dial with a clock, the nick name for that by the way, is a "tick tock tach". Please reply. Dave...

There was another turbine car that few people remember. Rover Cars of England was heavily into turbines, too, for about as long as Chrysler was. They ran a Rover turbine powered BRM at LeMans one year (1964?), but I don't remember how it did. Very good video, I'm surprised the museum let you do as much as you did!

One of the problems with turbine-powered cars is that turbine engines are expensive to manufacture because they have to be very carefully balanced and require very close machining tolerances, much more so than conventional piston engines.

LOL! You said "Harrah auto Museum" like Hurrah - like a cheer. It should sound like Hair-Ah. Thank you for showing us this car. I'll have to remember this video when I build my model.

My gramma's last car was a 1962 Dodge 440, and for Mother's Day in 1963, I'd arranged installation of air conditioning at Tidewater Dodge(Norfolk, Virginia). What a joy to find the Turbine car, which was badged Plymouth, in the service department and I got to sit in the car... Vibration? NOT A WHIMPER running at 30,000 rpm... Some of the Ghia design elements can be found in the 1967 Fury. Another 'experiment' of the period was our 1960 Plymouth station wagon with a 4-cylinder Perkins diesel.

Thanks for sharing!

First Harrah is pronounced 'Hair Rah'. The Chrysler Turbine cars were LOANED to museums, not given. And, yes, the turbine engines were disabled and a spare turbine engine went with the cars to also be displayed. One car was on display in a multi-level L.A. history museum decades before the Petersen Museum was built. My mother took me there in the mid-to-late 60's and I saw the car for the first time. We also visited the LaBrea Tar Pits and CBS' Television City. One magazine writer wrote a story of going to Chrysler and being shown the 3 Turbine cars. One was kept in running condition and the other two were parts cars. The writer happened to go out back and there were 5 more Turbine cars, but nobody would say anything or admit they were there. A few months later, the writer returned and the cars were gone. When he asked about them, they said what cars? Two of the Turbine cars were in private hands long before anyone knew who Jay Leno was. Before Jay got his own, he was allowed to borrow one from a private party for his "Jay's Garage" show. These were marvelous cars and it was obvious that they had T-bird roots, especially the front end. The roof was a typical Mopar 2-door hardtop design seen on many Mopars maybe 1966 and later. It's cool that the Turbine full length center console with 4 bucket seats was carried over to the AMC Marlin look-a-like 1966 Dodge Charger.

Distinctive styling and cutting edge engineering are not often found in the same car. I saw the Smithsonian car on display some years ago when it was on tour. The museum personnel would only touch it wearing white gloves like it was a Renaissance art work. It’s a stunning car to see in person, pictures do not do it justice. Much thanks for this video.

Thanks again for your positive and enthusiastic attitude, which doesn't seem to get in the way of the facts. Love this car.

I love these cars, I believe Jay Leno owns one, I love the color and the body style. Really cool.

I also think that they'd be losing a lot of $$$ on that exotic engine. High temp metals had to be used, Chrysler IS an engineering company. It was and still IS a elegant car that looks like it's moving while parked. Yes! It's also my "bucket list" to see Jay's Garage. This car + Stanley Steamer would what I'd LOVE to ride in. At least you got close to one. I finally got to sit in a DeLorean @ Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX. The Astronaut Corvette was locked though.

The paint color is suppose to be a "copper", but it includes a lot of pearl pigments and other things that are intended to make it change colors in the sunlight. The JoHan instructions talk about the color...but I can't get to the instruction sheet right now. :D

The whereabouts of the 9 surviving Chrysler Ghia Turbine cars - 991211 - St Louis Museum of Transportation 991225 - Detroit Historical Museum - displayed at the Gilmore Museum at Hickory Corners, MI 991230 - Chrysler Corporation 991231 - Owned by the late Frank Kleptz 991234 - Henry Ford Museum 991242 - Jay Leno - former Chrysler Corp car 991244 - Los Angeles Natural History Museum - was on display at the Petersen Museum earlier 991245 - Smithsonian 991247 - Chrysler Corporation Someone at Chrysler missed up when they sent the display motor to St Louis. St Louis Museum of Transportation did not put it on display for years. When they did decide to display the display motor, most of the parts they needed to make a running motor were there. That car has run since the mid 1980s. When this car goes to shows, it is driven from the trailer to it's display spot, & back to the trailer at the end of the show. If you can go to St Louis Easter Sunday, they take it to the Forest Park Easter show every year. They start it & run it for 5 minutes every hour on the hour. It sounds like an old vacuum cleaner to me. The exhaust is pretty warm, but not hot. The reason St Louis ended up with one is in the 1960s, the St Louis Museum of Transportation was affiliated with the Smithsonian.

We had my brother in law's memorial service at the Harrah's (pronounced hair-ah) auto museum in Reno because he was an auto restorer. The didn't have the Chrysler Turbine yet. And, hey, you're name's Jay, so just pound on Leno's door and demand to see AND drive his entire collection. 😉

I love these - always wanted one, I've seen one in person. Just awesome. Thanks for that one. Harrah was Irish, there are 2 pronunciations. Hair-uh and HAER-uh most used HAR -UH. Not hoo rah.

I thought I left the link here...but it doesn't seem like I did. Here's my unboxing of the Chrysler Turbine model kit from Jo-Han : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4XzbhVmT_OQ.html Enjoy!

There are only 2 Chrysler Turbines in private collection. Jay Leno has one of them.

I have seen write ups where it ran on Chanel #5

I have 2 model kits of this car. They were made by JoHan and include parts for every panel of this car.

You need to meet Jay Leno. He would love your channel.

But did it have coat hooks and a good radio? If not I’ll pass on it.

it can't run on ethal-gasoline ( or LPG/natural-gas as the fuel tank and system isn't setup for that, so you made a small errors, it's for forgivable i to had to be corrected by elders and my sibling who's way more into this car and 4-door late 60's darts ) as the ceramics/side-wheel's are about the same thing as catalytic converters used from 1973* to now in 2023 and the legal team nerf it as it's more powerful than the street 426-hemi and it doesn't help it used the 727-automatic as at the time was the only option corporate had without major tooling being redone if dodge made this available i think the 518 would be the $$$/king 👑 vs the hemi as most mopar guy's i know drool at the chance of owning a turban powered car