Jay Leno's Car Collection Includes an Unbelievable 12 Million Car

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3. 1963 Chrysler Turbine Car. Like the Gullwing above, the Chrysler Turbine also has a connection to WWII. Chrysler started researching turbine engines for planes in the 1930s, but nothing came of it.

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Dennis is back at Jay Leno's shop in California to check out his turbine powered toys, like his 62' Chrysler, the Y2K Motorcycle, and the GM EcoJet. The Chry.

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Jay Leno Builds a Turbine-Powered Biodiesel Supecar A 1963 Chrysler turbine car and GM's 1950s Firebird jet cars inspired Jay Leno to build another high-tech supercar. This new.

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Jay Leno 16 November 2021 Share Bettmann Archive/Getty Images To this day, I still get letters from guys who were at the 1964 New York World's Fair who want to come see the Chrysler Turbine Car again. I remember going with my dad and watching the Turbine Car come out and drive around in circles in this pit.

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By Chris Demorro November 19, 2012. 1963 Chrysler Turbine: Ultimate Edition - Jay Leno's Garage. Watch on. During the height of the "Jet Age", everybody thought that turbine cars were the inevitable future. Once Chrysler rolled out a line of turbine-powered cars, it felt as though the future had finally arrived.

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The Chrysler Turbine Car is an experimental two-door hardtop coupe powered by a turbine engine and manufactured by Chrysler from 1963 to 1964. The bodywork was constructed by Italian design studio Carrozzeria Ghia and Chrysler completed the final assembly in Detroit.

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Jay Leno, no stranger to the acquisition of unique cars, was able to obtain one in 2008 from the Walter P. Chrysler Museum. The car was built in Italy by Carrozzeria Ghia and the engine could make 130hp and 425 lb-ft of torque. Discussing its special significance, Leno said "I think it's the most collectible American car —it was so different.

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Chrysler's Turbine Car: The Rise and Fall of Detroit's Coolest Creation - Kindle edition by Lehto, Steve, Leno, Jay, Leno, Jay. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Chrysler's Turbine Car: The Rise and Fall of Detroit's Coolest Creation.

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There are few people in the world with a car collection that can rival that of Jay Leno.. The 1963 Chrysler Turbine Car is an extension of 1960s' America's obsession with the jet engine and the.

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Jay says he first fell in love with the car at age 14, during a visit with his family to the 1964 World's Fair. Unfortunately, the car cost far to much to produce - about $13,000 at the time, when a comparable Cadillac cost approximately $6,000. Other downsides included so-so mileage and emission issues.Sadly, 46 of these cars were destroyed.

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Jay Leno's shows off his rare 1963 powered by gasTurbine engine The car sounds like a giant vacuum cleaner at the Friday Classic car night at Bob's Big Boy in Toluca Lake Show more Jay Leno.

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Jay Leno Drives One of the Last Chrysler Turbines Some thought it could change car-building forever, but the Chrysler Turbine—a futuristic turbine-powered car hailed as an alternative to.

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It was non-running when he got it but his friend Jay Leno made some phone calls to friends at Chrysler and managed to get an operable turbine. This raised the population of running.

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1963 Chrysler Turbine: Ultimate Edition. It's the amazing car Jay's lusted after since he was 14 years old, and today's episode is packed with all kinds of a.

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By comparison, the Chrysler turbine was rated at just 130 horsepower, although it could produce an impressive 425 pound-feet of torque. "Power-on was almost instantaneous," Mr. Leno noted.