Steve, thanks for honoring these guys! It's sad that they and their knowledge are fading away. I'm really glad that you enabled some of that knowledge being shared and transferred.
I stood in front of the Turbine car in the St. Louis Museum of Transportation this past Friday. A copy of your book is on a stand under the TV looping a video about the car.
Bill sounds like a true upstate New Yorker. The reason companies like GE in Schenectady, IBM in Endicott, Corning, Reminton/Rand/Dresser in Bath, Kodak in Rochester, and so many others were so successful is 100% because of people like BILL with the Upstate "can-do" attitude. May the men who you've mentioned in this video rest in peace.
Mr Lehto: I appreciate your story on the Chrysler Turbine engine project. I have always been interested in the adaption of Turbine engines in the automotive field. I was fortunate enough to see the application by Ford in the early 1970,s in the Truck application when i was going to school at Ford World headquarters. They took us to a Quarry where they had a few prototypes operating. It was so impressive to see then climbing a steep grade with a full load and hardly no noise. Who knows what we would now be driving if they fully developed the Turbine for full automotive application.
That‘s an awesome story, thanks for sharing! I keep waiting for an EV, or other non fuel, to make a regular truck that can haul. That’s disappointing to learn this may have been possible long ago, but I’m sure petrol companies may have had something to do with that not happening. Thanks again for sharing.
@@thiefrules Thanks! That’s pretty interesting, I’ll read more into it later. I’d like something that’s completely fossil fuel free, but I only perused the site. Thanks again!
How gracious, how Steve L. You are a real car guy. and your remembernses and honoring others in the car field are wonderful. Thanks, buddy; and remember, sometimes, just sometimes Old guy's rule.
@@robertlawrence9000 I was never a Mopar guy, but seeing their once proud history in America end so badly is sad. They had some great cars I wish I could go back in time and buy now all becoming FixItAgainTony vehicles.
I am not even a car guy, but my dad would tell me about the turbine cars when I was a kid and I inherited his interest in them because of his nostalgic stories. So I was glued to the screen when I saw the documentary. Then I saw Steve in the documentary and I was like thats the lawyer I watch on you tube! And his brother worked on the car restoration in the documentary. Anyway thanks for all of this hard work and dedication Steve.
I remember going to T.R. Faulds Chrysler/Plymouth (later Buskard Motors) to see one of the Turbine cars when it was on display in my home town of London, Ontario Canada in the early 60's. Thank you for the touching & informative tribute to those two gentleman, Steve.
Dear sir…. You humility is a beautiful thing to see and hear…. These men were iconic with ability to create what they created engines. Unbelievable engines. But their ability to interact with everybody else kindly just shows that they were great people… Jay Leno trying to get those cars running is a beautiful thing if you’re a car person it’s just wonderful that you’re showing respect to the ones that worked very hard to create something that is still a marvel… this is why I watch your show all the turbulence that’s happening in the world and on the Internet this is a safe zone where people actually respect and enjoy the people that created things all continue to watch your show forever and I am so sorry that we’ve lost the strongest mind among us… they will be missed. Unlike so many before them because these guys really knew what the hell they were doing…. My grandfather worked for Boeing as an engineer he would be completely upset with what’s happened to Boeing…. I’m sorry I’m rambling the world lost two really fine engineers I’m sure we can all agree on that that…
Steve , this video is a great tribute to these two distinguished gentlemen , sometimes it seems a crime for some people to become older and pass away, this seems to be the case for these two ,R.I.P. Gents
Steve, I'm so sorry for your loss. I'm at that age where we lose friends so often we meet up at funerals and reminisce about our friends. We tell old stories, laugh a bit, cry a bit and - most importantly - we remember. Thank you for sharing your memories with us. These gentlemen will live forever in stories handed down. I'm (obviously) female, know NOTHING about cars (except change your oil and check your fluids regularly) and I found these stories awesome! You were so lucky to have known them. God bless and rest in peace, gentlemen. You will be remembered. ❤
As a car guru, I’m going to share this with two other gurus that I work with occasionally. We have our own specialities, and we can’t always get along without each other. Jerry was obviously a guru of a different sort, and has his own entry in the annals of cars.
When I was a kid my dad took me to Halifax Chrysler Dodge to see the Chrysler Turbine Car, I live in Canada so they didn't lend any of them out to people here, but they did tour it through the dealer network. Dad was huge Mopar guy and he was good friends with one of the salesmen at the Chrysler place so he invited him to go see it, and as it had to do with cars he took me with him.
As I'm sure every past generations have thought, we are losing so many of the great men and women that engineered, developed and created the hobby we so love today. Without the internet these individuals would be side notes in a magazine or newspaper, never to be mentioned again. Thank you Steve.
All of my family from that generation is gone, we really need record their memories, before they pass. I learned all i could from my folks and dying skills and woodcraft.
What a treat for you to have been able to meet and get to know some of these amazing guys who worked on this cool project. I remember my dad talking to me about this program (it was before my time), but he'd seen it when it happened, and being a mechanical engineer, was interested in this car. Condolences to the family and friends of these amazing guys.
I remember seeing the Chrysler Turbine Car at the 1964 NY World's Fair. It was a beautiful car. As I recall, they at some point started the Turbine engine. It made the coolest sounds, and 10 year old me wanted one. I too am a big fan of these cars.
Best of wishes to Bills family and God speed to the gentleman on his way to the pearly gates. He shall be missed but he made his mark will not be forgotten.
Awesome stories Steve! These guys sound like they lived fascinating lives! I'm sorry for your loss and I hope their families are doing ok with their passing. If I were apart of their family, I would feel very proud knowing the legacy they left. Thanks for sharing with us.
It makes me sad that we are losing this era of Engineers. Our world built on the shoulders of these men and women. And it makes me sad that eventually we will lose them all and the knowledge they have.
Great tribute to these two guys ! When they worked on the turbine cars, they were only still in their 20's ! Though not at the start of their careers, but still early in it. That's an experience, that will stick in your head.
Reminds me of Jack Northrop passing shortly after the Pentagon revealed the still-secret B-2 'Flying Wing' aircraft to him. He always knew his concept could work excellently and that justified his life-long belief in it, so finally his work was done.
No doubt on the first part. As for being stubborn...yeah, we can be. ;) (I'm a retired computer and electrical engineer.) One of the engineers who worked on the space shuttle was the father of a classmate of mine in college while we were working on getting our engineering degrees. My dad's best friend was an electrical engineering student at Chicago University during the early 1940s and had worked on developing an improved version of RADAR using the resonance cavity that was brought over from England (dad was attending Signal School there for the Navy, got to meet Albert Einstein, and was on guard duty at Soldier Stadium during the first controlled nuclear chain reaction). His friend ended up becoming the main rep for Motorola in the state of Iowa and the states around it. He encouraged my interest in electronics and ended up becoming an Electronics Tech in the Navy, then went on to earn my own engineering degrees in college.
What a great story. I think I had a close encounter with one of these turbine cars. I remember back in the early 60's I was walking home at night from High School in Riverside, IL when a car passed me. It was dark and the gas street lamps did not illuminate the road very well and this car that passed me had a whining sound coming from it instead of the normal gas car engine exhaust sounds. When the car went by me I saw that it had two rather large round red tail lights. It was very quiet and immediately I thought that that must have been one of those Chrysler turbine cars I had read so much about in some of the car magazines I would spend my money on. I told my buddies about this story and they all said I must have been imagining this but I still, to this day, believe that it was one of those cars. To give a little credence to this comment, Riverside, IL was and still is an upscale residential neighborhood, a suburb of Chicago. It is I think that I saw what I saw and how neat it was. I just wish the street light were a bit more bright. Just thought I share this with you.
Bill was a family friend of an ex girlfriend. We did two weeks of camping across the UP together over a decade ago. He was one of the most casually impressive people I’d ever met. If you drove a GM made any time in or around the 70s, his hands are on your car’s design.
I think Jay featured a guy who not only owned several of these cars but also was very knowledgeable about the turbine operation and was able to restore his cars to good working order. And all done in the guy's two car garage.
Steve, thank you for these stories and for your very interesting book. Ihave several of your books and the Chrysler Turbine Car book is one of them. As a teenager in the 1960s I built a detailed plastic model of the turbine car and was fascinated by it. It is such a shame that most were destroyed.
Steve, very cool and it's sad to lose that great history, I don't know if you heard but Rob Pitts aka the Rabbit that was on Vinwikki and had his own channel recently passed away as well
When I was about 10 years old. I had one pass me, I remember the high speed sound. Like a jet. I was traveling with my Grand Parents and my Grand Dad that read Populer since and Populer Makanics, He had read about the car and knew what it was.
Steve, in 1964 I was a 10 year old kid who's dad was a Chrysler dealer in a smaill WV town. A Turbine broke down nearby and was towed in to dad's garage. A couple days later 2 guy's from Chrysler arrived to diagnose the problem. Fan blade failure. A couple days later a 3rd guy arrives from Detroit driving a Dodge stake body truck hauling a crated Turbine. They did the swap. When they road tested it I got to ride in the back seat. Amazing! The co-pilot had a bunch of guages on the floor and he would tell the pilot to perform a procedure while he watched his guages. I'm pretty sure Bill Carry was one of them. Here's a video of them leaving. (Sorry for the quality) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cJyXWRHmRp8.html
Steve, you did a great job on your tribute to these wonderful gentlemen. By the end of your video, i felt like i knew them. You sound like you were as good a friend to them as they were to you. Take care, my Friend!
It’s all because it is like a disease it’s who you are. It’s ingrained in you. Much like myself started wrenching on my own cars at 16. Did it professionally for many years and still fixing vehicles to this day and I’m only 69
