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    Twin-Turbo Lexus IS-F: A Proper Jet Car Substitute

    Ghia Gilda Streamline X Coupé: Coolest Chrysler Ever Made
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    05/04/09

    In reply to Twin-Turbo Lexus IS-F: A Proper Jet Car Substitute
    Sounds like a dentist's drill.


    And my teeth just shivered with fear.

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    Image of WheatKing WheatKing
    05/04/09

    In reply to Twin-Turbo Lexus IS-F: A Proper Jet Car Substitute
    Nice Hyundai..


    on a side note..


    I've always wondered if it was some kind of inside joke to slap a big L on the forehead of Lexus cars..

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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    05/04/09

    In reply to Twin-Turbo Lexus IS-F: A Proper Jet Car Substitute
    It should set itself on fire.
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    Image of Graverobber Graverobber
    05/04/09

    In reply to Twin-Turbo Lexus IS-F: A Proper Jet Car Substitute
    Nice picture of the pile of manure there. Oh, and what's that behind it?
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    Image of Jo Schmo Jo Schmo
    05/04/09

    In reply to Twin-Turbo Lexus IS-F: A Proper Jet Car Substitute
    clean-up on aisle 4...
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    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    05/04/09

    In reply to Twin-Turbo Lexus IS-F: A Proper Jet Car Substitute
    Sweet crimson motherlover, that's astonishing! I cannot begin to fathom what I'd think hearing this thing coming down the road.


    This is the powertrain I want in the back of my Prius.

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    Image of Syrax Syrax
    05/04/09

    @A pistonforging player: And it'd still be a Toyota in heart.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    05/01/09

    In reply to Ghia Gilda Streamline X Coupé: Coolest Chrysler Ever Made
    Jet Cars fly

    Jet Cars gone

    Jet Car stole my baby...
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    05/02/09

    @ForgedyPistonshroom: Doncha know it. Nice Dolls reference!
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    Image of Vintage Racer - with V-12 goodness Vintage Racer - with V-12 goodness
    05/01/09

    In reply to Ghia Gilda Streamline X Coupé: Coolest Chrysler Ever Made
    I'm wondering what the aerodynamics of this would have been like at speed? How much frond end lift do you think that body would generate at say, 100 mph?
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    05/01/09

    @Vintage Racer -: front... front... front... sheesh..
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    05/01/09

    In reply to Ghia Gilda Streamline X Coupé: Coolest Chrysler Ever Made
    Chrysler and Ghia had a fruitful relationship in the '50's and '60's collaberating on some very special cars, both as one-offs and small series. The Ghia 450SS, using the same powertrain as the contemporary Barracuda Formula S, was the last of these coachbuilt specials.
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    05/01/09

    In reply to Ghia Gilda Streamline X Coupé: Coolest Chrysler Ever Made
    The owner who put a turbine in this car is my new best friend!
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    Image of Mobius Mobius
    05/01/09

    In reply to Ghia Gilda Streamline X Coupé: Coolest Chrysler Ever Made
    1955 and they could design that cool awesome beauty.


    50 years on, they give us this:



    Seriously, what the f**k?

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    Image of Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing
    05/01/09

    In reply to Ghia Gilda Streamline X Coupé: Coolest Chrysler Ever Made
    Based on the turbine whine in the video, it would seem that Commander Ed Straker of SHADO drove the 1980 model of the Gilda...


    [www.starshipmodeler.com]

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    Image of Graverobber Graverobber
    05/01/09

    In reply to Ghia Gilda Streamline X Coupé: Coolest Chrysler Ever Made
    Awesome car. I saw it, and spoke with the owner, at Pebble Beach this past year. The restoration is immaculate.



    Makes you think- this is what Batman would roll in, if he happened to be fighting crime in Roma rather than Gotham.
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    Image of WheatKing WheatKing
    05/01/09

    In reply to Ghia Gilda Streamline X Coupé: Coolest Chrysler Ever Made
    From Allpar: [www.allpar.com]


    " When the Corporation was in such dire straights, back in 1979, Chrysler got some loan guarantees from the US Government. That Chrysler (as a condition of those loans) had to sell off Chrysler Defense and the M1 turbine-powered tank program is lesser known, but still public knowledge.


    What is known only to a priveleged few is that the government killed a dream of a lifetime for a group of 70 people at the Chrysler "skunkworks" in Highland Park.


    Believe it or not, Chrysler was days away from making a production decision (one which Iacocca favored) on a rather unique vehicle...


    The 1981 Chrysler New Yorker Turbine car (M-body) was ready to be tooled, according to the head of the program, Mr. George Scheckter, whom I met when I got to see and touch the 1963 Turbine Car again in 1989. There was no more design work to be accomplished, just tool and start production.


    The Turbine Engine was a fifth generation (not a 3rd generation like the 1963 car) engine capable of 22mpg in the EPA test cycles. One of the prototypes is still in existence (at least it was in 1989), stored in the same building as the 1963 car, its tooling and all the remaining spare parts (enough to build 3 more of the 1963 cars).


    Your government thought it was too much of a risk and ordered the car cancelled as "too risky, from an economic standpoint." Just imagine what COULD have happened!"

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    Image of FTGDWolverineEdition'09 FTGDWolverineEdition'09
    05/01/09

    In reply to Ghia Gilda Streamline X Coupé: Coolest Chrysler Ever Made
    Chrysler actually built rockets (Redstone Ballistic Missiles) for the NASA and USAF till the end of 60s or so. That's how they acquired a lot of the gas turbine technology. Hell! The pentastar guys even enabled the US to mass produce nuclear bombs.
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    Image of WheatKing WheatKing
    05/01/09

    @Formerlythegreatestdriver: Chrysler built the turbines for the M1 tanks till they took a gov't loan in '79
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    Image of Peter Orosz Peter Orosz
    05/01/09

    @Formerlythegreatestdriver: That was new. Which is weird when I consider the dozens of hours spent reading about Project Mercury.
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    Image of voodoojoo voodoojoo
    05/03/09

    @Peter Orosz: nothing lost, really. The more time one spends with those sorts of things, the better a person one becomes.
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