Here's why the government made Chrysler destroy its 46 jet cars 

That's the coolest thing I've heard in a long time. It all just seems so fitting. He may have only been president but I'd say he probably felt like a King while driving around in a tequila powered road rocket. Plus you can jam a straw into the fuel tank and get yourself a hit of tequila. Sounds so convenient.

Now I want a tequila powerd car

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👍

Turbine Bronze! Excellent I want just the hubcap off the white 1. Pubstuntz

@@TheHungrySlug as long as it's never been fuelled with anything other than food grade drinkable fuels.

Sorry for your loss buddy

did he move over to the GM turbine project? they put a coal dust burning Turbine in a Olds in 82, it would make sense.

Thank you for sharing 👍👍

Heck, that full set of internals may fit in that one mentioned that has none.. Those old Engineers like your gramps knew their stuff..

After seeing this play out it may appear like a half baked idea. The mostly free (cost money for car, transport, people and time) publicity at a time they were experiencing financial challenges may have benefited Chrysler with more sales. The Auto industry has many stories of the challenges to keep evolving and making autos the public wants or needs. We appreciate all the efforts of the people working towards a result that can greatly benefit or change our history

that's all government.

Reform governments now.

That era of mass car murder still aches. I saw a seemingly good condition K5 in a dumpster on a hill with the cash for clunkers billboard. So many of my friends and other car people tried in vein to save the older more priceless vehicles, but the government refused to let any of them go

The butthurt over CFC (so many years past its brief impact) is hilarious. Most of what got scrapped was no loss while providing MANY donor vehicles for salvage to keep other machines running. People outside the salvage industry don't tend to know how it works. CFC yielded many accessories, body parts, whole interiors (great for fixing Copart buys which is what I did when I worked for a used car lot), front clips, fenders, truck beds (beds are not cabs so those were fair game and we got our share) wheels, suspension parts, rear ends and more. A few desirable machines got zapped but most went to salvage yards (who were entitled to buy them provided they snuffed the engines and crushed the hulls) thereafter to be profitable parts sources. Nearly EVERY old vehicle meets the shredder. If you're too slow to score what you want through poor planning that's a USER error.

@@Comm0ut You missed the part where it cost all of us to the tune of three billion dollars. Enough to build a 400 square foot tiny home for 60,000 of the 550,000 homeless Americans including Veterans that are on the street. Which do you think is more important?

hate to say it but the BOX is now worth more than what is inside it!! its a 75% x 25% of product

How much do you think it is worth? I also have one, but don’t have the box for it.

​@@richardweiner6405 With the box in good condition its worth over $2 million. Without the box 50cents.

I suppose the box is worth so much more because there must be so very few of them. I received mine from a relative who was working at a hotel where the Chrysler executives were having a meeting. It just came with a booklet about the car and the model itself. Didn’t come with a box

I'm 71 years old and I still have my model too! They gave them away at events that demonstrated the turbine car. I remember them balancing a nickel on the air cleaner of a running engine.

Thanks government, you're the best👍

I’m from the government, and I’m here to help!

@@danpanderson W

​@@EnkiMMXII What Chrysler could not find some buyers of rare car to pay the tax and buy the cars? People were knocking down the door to get them. Chrysler was lazy and wasteful in there complice to the law.

@@tipperzack When Chrysler first had then brought in from Italy, they were planning to continue developing turbine cars and eventually bring them to mass market. The bronze cars were just a proof of concept with plans for future improvements and iterations, so it didn’t make sense for them to pay to keep all of them, just a few to keep as museum pieces. Then, later on when the turbine car concept was scrapped, I would assume it would be too late to retroactively pay import and registration fees, even if people were willing to.

Now that's cool man

So Chrysler sshould NOT destroy the cars! No government has the right to tell us what we can invent and produce!

@@thoughtsfromathenasreality like the narrator said, you'd never have seen so many grown men cry like those men who saw those beautiful cars get crushed. I would have been one of them lol

@@thoughtsfromathenasreality amen

@@DickotheClown They knew it would catch on and we would get very creative. 😁😜

Thanks for your story!

Back when Detroit was actually great too. Well, I always hear Detroit itself is being restored with time.

@@trickyricky12147 It very much is, I still live here unfortunately. But they are actually trying to turn things around which is nice to see

@@bgemski they, Democrats distroyed Detroit, the instant NAFTA was signed into law based on lies, you could hear a sucking sound as Detroit's heart was sucked out, packaged up, and send to Mexico and China, and it left a wake of abondoned factories and boarded up main streets all across this country, and as long as Democrats are allowed to be in charge of ANYTHING, there is no chance on hell of turning it around, Democrats have to keep minorities poor so they can continue to exploit them

@@PsychobabbleRapp Im going to assume that you must be inferring i’m below the poverty line because of my Area, no?

I'm wondering what the engine braking was like (or lack of it) on the down-sides of those hills. Without engine braking the brakes of the time wouldn't last (even the brakes of this time they won't last without engine braking).

a BRM turbine car,, would have been way overcomplicated and do 10 laps then have a siesta!

@@ldnwholesale8552 it did over 3,600km at LeMans 24 hrs in 1953. That's a bit more than 10 laps.

Britain, as always, was ahead.

BMW produced the first gas turbine powered vehicles in 1944.

@@tallbillbassman Not in gas turbine technology, in fact they lagged many years behind.

Saw one by a roadside shrine in Colorado in '65. Awesome car.

Tony S ... Me too, but it was on the Hamtramck/Detroit border line, only a hop away from the Chrysler Think Tank located in Detroit. It looked like 2 Chrysler exec's out for Lunch & a ride. Never heard or seen anything like that since--Sooooooo Cool.

No you didn’t

@@yodaindica you were there?

yes. it belonged/was being driven by gordon farrell's father, mr farrell, who worked for chrysler.

-Never actually lost, it is a tangible asset, like many... commonly 'Sold' ;)

It wasn’t lost, it was preserved at Chrysler because it was too expensive. The video explains it.

@@ivanpatriot1644 That's not what he's talking about.

@@johnhancock6114 what's he talking about then? The video was about Chrysler's turbine car, and he's lamenting the loss of American engineering magnificence. Not hard to connect the dots here. No engineering magnificence was lost. Chrysler made a piece of engineering magnificence, but they shelved it because it wasn't cost effective. They didn't lose the info, burn the books, or anything like that. It just wasn't affordable. If anything, it helped usher the idea of powering the M1 battle tank with a turbine engine. That's what they use, still to this day.

@@ivanpatriot1644 He's referencing it on a scale much larger than Chrysler's Turbine car. Many years ago the USA used to be the one country everybody wanted to come to in order to learn and be able to apply their unique ideas, and our country used to recruit the best and the brightest the world over but over time that has all changed and now people go to other countries to apply their skills rather than come here. While we do still have those who come here for that purpose, much of it has been lost to other countries because, simply stated, the USA has fallen into obscurity and we are no longer *THE* place everyone wants to go.

Sounds like a lovely honeymoon.

It is something I will never forget

Didn't they say it runs on any liquid fuel?

@@shannondove9029 I was only about 13 at the time, but it seems like dad used something called white gas. I don’t remember him using regular gas. He was an engineer, and very particular:)

Very cool 🤠👍

@@Grandmascrafts891 I believe white gas was unleaded back before unleaded was a thing. Maybe the lead in regular gas back then caused issues in the turbine?

That sounds awesome.

Heard that same joke applied to Finns. LOL!

Hahahaha. Go tigers 🐅

@@kurancy it’s not a Joke, I work for a Finnish company, most are still like this..

An extroverted engineer, teaches you the correct way to walk on your feet, while he helps you along and talks your ear off!

Not me. I have known several comic engineers. Even writer Al Jean of the Simpsons is a techie type.

All Chrysler cars where special, that ended a long time ago.

@@unfairfight3625 My 1985 Dodge 600 Convertible is still special damnit.

@@jonbaker3728 I'm fully rebuilding a 1990 Dodge Grand Caravan. It sat for 15 years but the engine is running smooth. Its a keeper.

@@jonbaker3728 special to you, that is different.that what is great about the car hobby, there is something for everyone.

@@tadwyn no.....no it isn't

Robert that is really wonderful! Thanks for sharing that gem of history! 💎

Robert ~ You were very lucky for a ride in one. I saw one up close at Niagara Falls - Canada in 1964. Had a pleasant smell from the exhaust.

I think at this point, it would be easier to say what Jay Leno, DOESN'T have, than to list all the cars he has.

Jay Leno is able to buy collector cars from hesitant sellers because he built a Museum, and thus they are not just toys for a rich man. Often the sellers seek him out after their father, uncle, etc. died to see their rare car enter Leno's Museum...

No surprise there.

@@davidhollenshead4892 I'll do that if I get a jewel that I can't afford to restore/mantain. It will be in good hands

@@davidhollenshead4892 I like Jay but he needs to get UNWOKE. Shameful to cave in to the cancel culture mob

Yeah, the Granatelli bros brought them Bobby Unser drove. The racing authority, whoever that was at the time, banned them the next year. More because it was the Granatellis who brought them, it was mainly political nonsense.

I was thinking the same thing.

Yeah, the conspiracy bullshit is sexy....but reality sets in and the facts are clear: turbines are expensive to manufacture, maintain, and are not eco-friendly in terms of manufacture or exhaust. But on the plus side, they sound cool, run on most fossil fuels.

@@luisderivas6005 It is VERY sexy my friend, VERY. Not to say conspiracies don't happen, cuz they do.

trust and believe big oil had their hands in there somewhere ...... because down the line someone knows someone who hangs out with someone whose money is all tied together

And you would be right.

Wow I’m extremely jealous of you 😂

There's an impostor among us.

I saw one in the early 60s. Was at the Chicago Car Show. My dad wanted to buy one but wasn’t for sale. He wanted a test drive but there was too long of a wait, too many others were there first.

Fake news 😅

@@BlackandWhitecustoms not fake news. A real memory. I was about 6 years old. My friends dad told us it was the same type of engine from the Bat Mobile. (Adam West) of course we believed him.

I thought it had to be something like alcohol. Like it could run on any sort of liquid fuel, not just anything.

Our country ruins every good thing!!!!

@@benmaier7169 I'm pretty sure it's international law, still sucks though

I cringed 😬 physically

There's still at least several that survived. I know of one and Leno has one

@@Miniaturehorseexpress of Coors

I once ran out of gas and had a couple liters of 91% isopropyl alcohol in the car. It actually ran on it and I was able to get the car home lol

Especially in the south east right now.

I worked as a field service tech where we would carry around mineral spirits for cleaning solvent....once ran out of gas sitting in commuter traffic....filled up the 85 S-10 with the cleaning solvent and the poor 2.8V6 death rattled its way to a gas station about 2 miles away....Stayed together after that "motor flush" for 10's of thousands of miles after the fact.....🤣

Officer I am not drinking tequila, this is my emergency fuel

@youtube name thats dosent sound right have you tried it

This was before the rulebook was created

Still is

Maybe? They’re sure not making any of the cool cars they should;( nothing I can afford anymore;( either!

@@shane8911 110% now it's just *rails massive line* "what if we put a hellcat in it?!"

Thats what makes it so cool!!!

With the technological advancements that we’ve had since they initially created these (possibly making production way cheaper) and the expected rise of gas prices, I wonder if this would be viable again. Imagine filling up your tank with... tequila 😂

@@JavTheRipper pop the fuel line off right quick, I need a shot...

I went a few hrs away yesterday gas wasnt that scarce in nc its people being stupid tryna pack in thestattions the problem

@@AllaboutTheWoodrows Charlotte NC. I actually needed gas yesterday, 3 hours and checking 7 stations later, I finally got my 12 gallon tank filled 😑

@@krispyjuniors7734 i was in Charlotte last night hahaaha

Salesman: Yes.

It doesn't run on Dunkin', that's for sure!

it runs on $100 bills

I just thought about people buying the $18,000 wheel package on the Mustang.

$10,000 in 1960 would be $90,000 today.

As an aircraft mechanic, I am glad to hear that they saved the engines.

I used to visit omni source a metals recycling plant in toledo and detroit, a friend was a high up, well he showed me them shredding brand new vipers and prowlers back in the 90s. I forget why but it was so depressing to see.

@@98f5 Those Vipers and Prowlers were most likely pre production cars, fully complete and running but not yet homologated. Car companies usually use these cars for press photos, they lend them to journalists for brief tests and then have to destroy them, as they aren’t actually road legal

@@Jay1330 Reminds me of when Ford of Australia finished the Falcon production and leant out the pre production Sprint 6 and Sprint 8 Falcons (Identifiable by their PP number plate on the engine) to journalists and then were all crushed but I’m sure one or two still exist as someone in the yard couldn’t bear the thought to crush them.

Since the big 3 are all based in Michigan. I bet a whole lot of cool projects were crushed secretly in Michigan.

Peterson Museum is awesome

I wonder if that is the same one I saw for sale back in 2001 in Carthage Missouri at Daniel Motors just north of town off 71 highway?

@@bullriderinwrangler1 doubtful, because they were all destroyed after their testing period. The one that came into Eldon, Missouri was in summer of '64.. By reading some post, presumably these 50 demonstrators, made one helluva wide sweep across America and into Mexico.

Wow thats awesome, ive only seen them in books.

@@richardcoram1562 Doubt all you want, I know what I saw. It's pretty much impossible to mistake any other car for this one.

@@bullriderinwrangler1 I'm not a doubter at all man what are you saying? IT WAS 1964 when I sat my 16 year old body in the seat behind the wheel of The Turbine car exactly like this one. I followed it for miles up highway 54 into Eldon. I ASKED IF I COULD DRIVE IT!! LOL Not surprised he said " sorry son, not today- go on sit in it"😁👍🇺🇸

It would make more power on diesel more thank likely

Excellent hypothesis on the E 85.

@@DarkAttack14 true but I doubt you want to deal with having to run def fluid to clean up the exhaust from the turbine engine.

@@sexkrazedpanda just run it straight piped ;)

I doubt it, they do not run high compression

It could be the one that ended up in jay Leno’s private collection

1. Another Marylander!? 2. Something that cool was here on our roads? Maybe there is hope

@@MaddJakd Many years ago at Chevy Chase Chevrolet

ROVER built a Gas Turbine car in England in 1949/50 and held the World Speed Record for a Turbine car at about 153 MPH. There as so many reasons that a gas turbine would simply NOT be suitable for a car. With a gas engine the response of the engine to accelerator movement is almost instantaneous. while a turbine takes a significant time to spool up to operating speed. Trying to drive a gas turbine car is stop go traffic was IMPOSSIBLE. Fuel consumption was was measured in FEET PER GALLON and the temperature of the exhaust would have incinerated a car behind it.

And that's why it was trashed by the government on orders from the auto industry nodought... just like when tucker's cars were destroyed.

less maintenance as in it won't need servicing as often - but the cost of that maintenance is going to be incredibly expensive. turbine powered cars are never going to happen. the average jet engine costs millions of dollars, and an overhaul will still be hundreds of thousands at a minimum. even if you find a way to make them as cheap as possible, the cost will still not be worth it over a piston engine

His law channel is a real treat too: ru-vid.com/show-UCMljRGC0eBJrxbUorWEnasg

You're better at English than a lot of Americans I've met.

You mean American English

You should hear him speak finnish :P

Too bad he can't pronounce "turbine" correctly, he keeps saying "turban."

pics or it didn’t happen

You snitched on your grandpa, you were not supposed to say anything, lol. 🤭

This is your grandpa. Wtf!

Awesome I’ll love ❤️ to see Vin Diesel talk to guy of that golden era to secretly reveal last car. Then Vin Diesel uses it. I’m not sure if that ideal was used in fast n furious sagas yet

Yea and I’m god

Would it be possible to fabricate one of these in your home? If so what would you need to do it? Would be very cool to have a turbo bike.

@@ggkkkgkgkkgkgkg home? No. Getting the basic metal is a major sourcing problem. I've seen some model builders use the technology but nothing on a big scale.

Passed out after 30 seconds and woke up wearing a turban.

Have a stroke wondering how he didn't see the e at the end of turbine. Probably says warsh instead of wash too. Use some watah to warsh the turban.

It was so distracting I could barely focus on the story. I felt like I was drunk. 😂

So it's actually the correct pronouciation of turbine in the engineering world. (Mech E, easier by a ton of aerospace people)

@@licentiousdreams um you do realise that he is using correct pronunciation of the word 'Turbine' it isnt Terrrrbyne

exactly

@@x1655 Commercial reality is what ruined the concept, I'd say. Cost. Plus the fact that these would have been totally impractical for stop/start city driving. Gas turbines take time to spool up and down and work best at constant speed (hence the widespread use in air transport and ships). I'd be very interested to know how the transmission functioned in those that were built but the video didn't go unto that. If there'd been any future for such automotive tech then the Japanese would already have been onto it. There are good reasons why it's never been revived anywhere.

same thing (sorta) happened to Ning Li's anti gravity studies too..

@@lusoverse8710 They didn't do very well in railway locomotives either with less stop/start driving.

@@lusoverse8710 lots of big word don't care car gone

Good morning Mr Bolian, God bless you and your family sir. Much love from Jacksonville Beach Florida. 💙🐻

Been subscribed to steve for a while now. Love his stories

God is good

Been there. Steve is a legend ! And a boss !

Gee Ed, Steve brought me here just a few months ago. Car sites aren't generally recommended to grandmas 😂

And all helicopters.

turboshaft engines can have fan blades... the one in the car was a centrifugal compressor,.. no fan blades.. the intake was the same as a turbocharge..

@Jim Blalock Nope. There tends to be a lot of confusion about what term is assigned to what part in a jet engine, because many of them are nearly identical in design and function. So people who havent worked on them often get components mixed up. What you're referring to are compressor blades... These are not the same thing as fan blades. Yes, jet engines can have either impellors in centrifugal flow engines, or compressor blades in axial flow engines. Both of those designs, what youre referring to is the compressor section. Similarly, in the back, there is the turbine section, which can use either turbine blades or an impellor (many centrifugal flow engines use turbine blades btw, turbine impellors fell out of favor pretty quickly early on in jet engine development). A "Turbofan" is a whole other level of complication. Those actually do have "fan blades". The bare minimum you need for a jet engine is a compressor section (compressor blades), a combustion section, and a turbine section (turbine blades). This bare minimum arrangement is called a "turbojet". However, turbojets are pretty inefficient no matter what task you set them to. So engineers went out of their way to complicate jet engines past turbojets, to make them better at other tasks. This led to a proliferation of TYPES of jet engines, with names that have a prefix of "turbo", and a suffix of whatever task that jet engine accomplishes. In a "TurboFAN" engine, the core is just a regular turbojet... But the power from that jet is used to spin up a giant ducted fan. That fan is what provides most of the thrust. If you want to see an example of a turbofan, most modern day airliners use Turbofan engines. That single stage of big wide fan you see in the inlet, looking down the inlet of the engine, is the "fan" part of the turbofan. The actual "jet engine" part of the engine is a much skinnier core, that has a much lower diameter than the fan. The fan provides 80-90% of the thrust, by pushing cold air around the core of the engine through something called a "bypass". The core itself only provides 10-20% of the engine's thrust (most of the core's power is robbed to power the fan). This is all done because the turbojet engine is good at moving small volumes of air very fast. For a wide variety of reasons I wont get into, this is very inefficient on slower moving (subsonic) airliners. What the turbofan does is convert a jet engines power into something that moves a large volume of air much more slowly, to increase efficiency at subsonic speeds. The turbofan engine is the only type of jet engine that truly has "fan blades". And you can see them, because theyre the largest and biggest blades on the engine, as well as the blades you can see in the first stage (the first row of blades you see looking down an inlet). Although fan blades participate in inlet air compression, that is not their primary function. Their primary function is to generate thrust by moving as much air as possible around the jet engine through the bypass. This job is what makes "fan blades" distinct and different from "compressor blades". I am making this point as clear as I can, because although most jet engines have blades of some kind, not all jet engines have "Fan" blades... Compressor and turbine blades are not the same thing as fan blades, and you'll only find fan blades in turbofan engines. Powering a big ducted fan wasnt the only task engineers came up with for uses of jet engine power. Another is called a Turboprop. These are jet engines which power a propellor instead of a ducted fan. Similarly, and this is what's in the chrysler jet cars, a more generic jet engine who's only job is to provide shaft power to something else, usually through a gear box to reduce RPM, is a turboshaft engine. I think maybe a few turboprops and turboshafts have a bypass in their designs fed by a low pressure compressor, for use as cooling air, but as far as Im aware, these engines DO NOT EVER have a proper fan in them. Low pressure compressor blades are still compressor blades, not fan blades. Since the point of the jet engine in turboprops and turboshafts is to feed power to something that isnt a ducted fan, they wouldnt waste power trying to also power a ducted fan. Anyway... Fan blades, compressor blades, and turbine blades... Very similar parts separated only by function. Source? I was a KC-135 jet engine mechanic for 6 years, and spent a lot of time researching early jet history. I'd post links on this stuff, but YT just autodeletes comments with links.

@airtechmech *most helicopters. Early helicopters used reciprocating engines. Turboshafts proved to be far better power to weight ratio and much less maintenance intensive, so they took over most of the helicopter world. But some small helicopters with low HP requirements use recip engines still (the Mosquito comes to my mind, which has options for both).

​@@hatman4818 You are the mosquitoman 🦟 🩸🚁

It's a combination of a high-pitched whistling and a low rumble / roar.

That's a good way to describe the sound. I was at a restaurant in LA when Jay Leno drove his into the parking lot. It was the weekly cruise night and it was one of the few times I was at the right place at the right time. Such a cool car.

Chaparral 2F literally WAS a giant vacuum.

The 60s tv show Batman...the batmobile sounded that way lol

And it's an Italian vacuum cleaner. It's a 60s EV1 😀

Adjusting for inflation that's close to $100k

@@knote4958 they would still pay it!!

Ive heard that line of reasoning in my aircraft dealership. "189k for the good model, or 300k for the same thing with the top engine?" A disclaimer that the top engine is exclusive, new, and comes with developmental glitches. Customer says screw that, i want the newest and hottest. All we sell now it seems is the 300k models... don't undersell the customer as the saying goes.

@@Sarahbethcycles wtf ? Aircraft dealership? And why you ever pay 210k for a engine that is going to be more expensive to repair (since unproven) And considering that engine is what keeps the aircraft in the air... But someone that can by a aircraft at 300k they probably have stopped having to think or be nice to ousters. Let alone think strait.

@@TheDiner50 when you sell bargain basement airplanes you get bargain basement customers who love to go full options.

Can’t wait!

I love Car Trek!!!💙💙💙

This video went up 1 hour ago but this comment is from 14...am I missing something?!?

@@nicholaswhitehead3437 videos can be set to premiere at a specific time. The uploader may comment on it whilst,or let channel members view it early

I know Americans have a different way to pronounce words. But all I heard was turban powered 🤣🤣🤣

I wanted a Turbine car as a kid. Loved the old Mopars. Tried the balance the nickel test on many cars over the years. You can actually balance a nickel on a C4 Corvette ZR-1's LT-5 engine. Turbine smooth idle.

I also saw a Bronze Turbine car when I was a teen. It was at the Northway mall about 1962 and I also saw a nickel balanced on edge on the top on the turbine at idle. I also inspected that nickel afterwards. Looked normal. If it was magnitised, doesn't matter as it was sitting on an aluminum housing. The bearings were exceptional. I still have the brochure that was handed out to visitors. Maybe. My dad drove us there in a 1960 Dodge dart pioneer model - V8. Wish I had it now.

YES GREAT COLOR

Unlikely as there are only a cpl in the world

Is that the one at the Transportation Museum in Kirkwood?

Imagine having to hold the key in the start position until the RPM's reach the speed required for sustained ignition. They don't start like a gas engine, do that and you get a "cold start" that damages the turbine blades

@@guyorsini1044 ....

@ Guy Orsini Sustained ignition can happen at zero RPM. Lol... it’s fuel and an igniter.. it will burn. But if you do that you will get a “hot” start... not a cold start.. lol. So you dry spool it until the right RPM.. throw fuel in, and keep the starter going until RPM reaches the correct amount and temperatures are going down. If not.. you cut fuel and ignition and keep spooling it until the temps go down.

@@Bartonovich52 Your knowledge of the vagaries of turbine engines is laughable

Thanks, great story Sharing…….interestingly, see my comments.. I was car Nut even in 1960s

You must not have ever seen a porno then

Pool

I can hear his voice.

Best original; joke I have read in some time!

@@Dancinitup The joke just "happened" to hit me while watching the video... I could only imagine this really happening (RD saying this as a joke) and thought "Gee this would be funny!"

I can picture his face as he is saying that.

I know, right? _"Atomic batteries to power...turbines to speed..."_

Actually the batmobile, for real, had a regular engine. However, their speed boost "afterburner" was a hot started T-40 Solar (brand name) gas turbine. They would wind it up for the start and extra fuel pooled in the exhaust. Then the start button was pressed, whoosh! In the USNavy they were fire pumps and we lit one off in school as a hot start. They frowned on this of course.

The car was based on the Ford "Futura" concept.

That is no joke, there are old diesel powered cars in Europe than run on used frying oils ,some collect and filter the oil privately and some buy the oil from specialized firms. The engine needs to be fitted with a fuel heater and a diesel primer for cold starts ,does not work with highly emission controlled engines though!

You'll all be doing it if the price of diesel goes up.

@@dipling.pitzler7650 there’s cars like that in the USA too. It’s called PVO (Pure Vegetable Oil). That was actually Rudolph Diesel’s original concept for the Diesel engine. Petroleum based diesel only became common because diesel is a byproduct of refining gasoline. When they first started refining gasoline in large amounts they just flushed the diesel down the drain as waste.

@@dipling.pitzler7650 they have them in the US as well, they were pretty popular for a while. Worked with a gal that drove one, driving behind her in and out of work smelled like French fries.

you joke but 1.9PD TDI in VAG group cars can sip that shit all day long

Pretty sure anyone can research stuff and read it out

@@sexyfacenation But, most don't. Steve does and we learn things we didn't know existed in the first place.

lol

Every time he says it i imagine an Indian pulling a rickshaw

I'm torn. I can't decide if this is my new favourite mildly racist mispronunciation. Think I still prefer the way Americans pronounce Countach though

That’s all I could think of too 😂😂

Oh, "I"gor❗Help me with these Bags. Igor: You take the Blond, and I'll take the one in the Turbine! Turban❓