[cripplecreek]

Jay Leno has “Conservator-ship” of a Chrysler Turbine powered car. It technically belongs to Chrysler.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2A5ijU3Ivs

[Prospero]

I remember the Turbines, particularly I remember mooning over one on exhibit at a shopping center, one Saturday afternoon, in 1964.

As a matter of fact, those cars were the first thing that came to mind when I read this story, because I remembered asking Dad "whatever happened to the Turbines?"

He told me they'd been destroyed, by Chrysler, and years later I read Chrysler had, indeed, destroyed 100 of these special cars.

It bothered me when I was a kid, and it bothers me today. The litigious society, it would seem, at least as far as Chrysler's Turbine experiments, is at least 50 years old, and Leno must pay a "rider" on insurance to keep hold of his museum piece.

It also means Chrysler did not destroy all of them. Aren't there at least five of them stashed away?

[Yogafist]

Saw him at the Rock Store a few years ago with his turbine powered motorcycle. It sounded cool, but looked pretty slow.