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Chrysler Turbine Car "Bronze Blowtorch" Museum Display Sign - Jet-Car Facts
Promotional display placard for Chrysler's Turbine car listing its multi-fuel engine and low-maintenance features.
This is a photograph of a museum-style display placard titled "Chrysler's Bronze Blowtorch – the turbine," promoting the Chrysler Turbine car. The sign, headed "Imagine a car that...", lists five bullet-point advantages of the turbine engine: it runs on almost any fuel (including kerosene, heating oil, tequila, Chanel #5, and peanut oil); its engine weighs about half as much as a conventional V-8 while its 140 horsepower delivers performance equal to a 200-hp piston engine; it is self-cooled by its own air and has no radiator to fill; it uses only one spark plug and roughly one-fifth as many moving parts as conventional engines, implying reduced maintenance, tune-up, and repair costs; and it starts instantly even in the coldest weather with no warm-up needed. The placard closes with the rhetorical tagline "Now... Who wouldn't want a Jet-Car?" The background artwork shows stylized halftone imagery of the Turbine car's front end and "turbine" script badging. A reader learns the key marketed selling points of Chrysler's turbine-powered automobile concept. The document contains no fuse tables, part numbers, wiring data, or dates.
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Frequently asked questions
- What fuels could the Chrysler Turbine car run on?
- According to the sign, it runs on almost any fuel, including kerosene, heating oil, tequila, Chanel #5, and peanut oil.
- How much horsepower did the Chrysler Turbine engine produce?
- It delivered 140 horsepower, which the sign says is equal in performance to a 200-hp piston engine, while weighing about half as much as a conventional V-8.
- Did the Chrysler Turbine car have a radiator?
- No. The sign states it is self-cooled by its own air, so there is no radiator to fill.
- How many spark plugs and moving parts does the turbine engine have compared to conventional engines?
- It has only one spark plug and about 1/5th as many moving parts as conventional engines, which the sign suggests means reduced maintenance, tune-up costs, and repair bills.
- How does the turbine engine perform in cold weather?
- It starts instantly, even in the coldest weather, and needs no warm-up.
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