The Chrysler Turbine Car was part of a decades long effort by the Chrysler Corporation to develop a mass market gas turbine powered automobile. Building on work that began in the early 1950s, Chrysler launched a nationwide user experiment program with 50 hand-built Ghia bodied turbine cars in 1963. The cars were powered by a 130 hp regenerative gas turbine engine that ran on anything from kerosene to tequila and fed power to the rear wheels through a TorqueFlite transmission. Over the course of two years, 203 users around the country received one of these “Turbine Bronze” jet-age cars for a three-month evaluation. This is one of just nine remaining vehicles from that program and is one of the few that still runs. After the program, most of the vehicles were destroyed, and those that were saved, went to museums. This car was recently acquired by the Stahls Automotive Collection where it is displayed to the public in their wide-ranging collection.

NHVR No. 32 HAER No. MI-434