To: Red Badger
Turbine engine? Ask Parnelli Jones how it worked out for him 41 years ago at the Indy 500.
7 posted on
06/16/2008 10:12:35 AM PDT by
laker_dad
To: laker_dad
This ain’t your daddy’s Oldsmoturbine......
11 posted on
06/16/2008 10:15:00 AM PDT by
Red Badger
(NOBODY MOVE!!!!.......I dropped me brain............................)
To: laker_dad
Just think of how much technology has come in those 41 years too. I really hope he pulls this off and wipes the big three’s face in it.
16 posted on
06/16/2008 10:17:45 AM PDT by
Abathar
(Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
To: laker_dad
Turbine engine? Ask Parnelli Jones how it worked out for him 41 years ago at the Indy 500.
41 posted on
06/16/2008 10:53:41 AM PDT by
Cobra64
(www.BulletBras.net)
To: laker_dad
Turbine engine? Ask Parnelli Jones how it worked out for him 41 years ago at the Indy 500.
Didn't work well for my uncle who was one of the fifty who were given Chrysler turbines back in 1963. You couldn't start them at high altitude and the engine would self destruct if you didn't do the start up routine exactly right even at sea level. They never got the high gas mileage that was promised. The best he ever got was 16 mpg.
All of that being said, it was still a fun car...sounded like a Kirby vacuum cleaner going down the road.
60 posted on
06/16/2008 11:40:20 AM PDT by
radioman
To: laker_dad
Turbine engine? Ask Parnelli Jones how it worked out for him 41 years ago at the Indy 500. Pretty well, actually. The car led most of the race and lost because some obscure part in the transmission failed on lap 197, IIRC. USAC was so impressed that they immediately imposed crippling restrictions on turbine cars to protect the established owners' investments.
74 posted on
06/16/2008 12:37:50 PM PDT by
Grut
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