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    Ghia Gilda Streamline X Coupé: Coolest Chrysler Ever Made

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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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    Image of Vintage Racer - with V-12 goodness Vintage Racer - with V-12 goodness
    05/01/09

    @Vintage Racer -: front... front... front... sheesh..
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    Image of junkman junkman
    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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    Image of dwegmull comments for the purpose of obscurity dwegmull comments for the purpose of obscurity
    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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    Image of Plecostomus [Tyrrell] Plecostomus [Tyrrell]
    05/01/09

    In reply to Ghia Gilda Streamline X Coupé: Coolest Chrysler Ever Made
    After re-reading I have to ask, in the 1950's when Chrysler fitted it with a 130HP gas turbine, just how much power does its current gas turbine produce?
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    Image of Plecostomus [Tyrrell] Plecostomus [Tyrrell]
    05/01/09

    In reply to Ghia Gilda Streamline X Coupé: Coolest Chrysler Ever Made
    130hp @ 60,000RPM.


    Yeah, that's efficient.


    God, that is an awesome car, though.


    Definitely worthy of "Coolest Chrysler EVAR".

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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    05/01/09

    In reply to Ghia Gilda Streamline X Coupé: Coolest Chrysler Ever Made
    I remember this car at the Henry Ford Museum. I saw it and, as an aerospace engineer, thought, "Why don't they use gas turbines in more cars?"


    I still think that.

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    Image of scroggzilla raids again scroggzilla raids again
    05/01/09

    @Forged Pistons engineerd to Forged Pistons: I'm still waiting for the return of turbine powered race cars!
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    Image of Cognitive Friction Cognitive Friction
    05/01/09

    @Forged Pistons engineerd to Forged Pistons: Think of the dumbest person you know. Now put that person behind the wheel of a turbine powered car.


    There's your answer. It's the same reason we don't have mass-produced flying cars.

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    Image of .357 .357
    05/01/09

    In reply to Ghia Gilda Streamline X Coupé: Coolest Chrysler Ever Made
    That is pure awesome. Who didn't want to pilot a rocket when they were growing up?
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    Image of Jim-Bob Jim-Bob
    05/01/09

    In reply to Ghia Gilda Streamline X Coupé: Coolest Chrysler Ever Made
    Maybe now that Chrysler is no longer US owned, it can once again start building the turbine engined cars of our future. After all, a Gas Turbine engine would be great for a series electric hybrid. It can run on damn near anything, and is best at a steady state speed. Thus, the batteries and wheel motors become the transmission and the turbine spins at the speed it is most efficient at, and turns a generator through some sort of gear box at it's maximum efficiency too. Augment it with CIGSS sprayable solar technology in lieu of paint and you could theoretically have the perfect commuter car, with a range that would in point of fact be better than a Volt when considering a round trip commute and an 8-10 hour stay parked in the sun.
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    Image of scroggzilla raids again scroggzilla raids again
    05/01/09

    @Jim-Bob: Yeah, Fiat likes turbine powered cars too.....meet the Fiat Turbina
    I smell a comeback!
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    Image of Joe-Btfsplk Joe-Btfsplk
    05/01/09

    In reply to Ghia Gilda Streamline X Coupé: Coolest Chrysler Ever Made
    Wait...I think that this is the 2012 Chrysler-Fiat 300PP.
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    Image of Skunky Skunky
    05/01/09

    @Joe-Btfsplk: Is that like the car that Lupin III had?


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