The 1963 Chrysler Turbine Car was one of 55 that were built to evaluate the use of turbine engines as part of an automobile powertrain and given to real-world drivers for short loans. The thought was ...

During the Jet Age - the '50s and '60s - the automotive world was associated with unbridled optimism: as science and engineering made leaps and bounds, promising a better world for the future, concept ...

Chrysler’s jet-powered car lived to see the streets, but this grand experiment was plagued with negatives that always seemed to outweigh the positives. This fleet of exotic test vehicles, however, ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. As America soared into the Jet Age, ...

Pontiac — The Woodward Dream Cruise is where people from all over North America bring their unique automobiles: classic milk trucks, 1,500-horspower dragsters, Batmobiles. This year, Jay Leno brought ...

The 1950s and 1960s saw an impressive number of experimental concept cars hail from Detroit. Some were wild by design, while others hit showroom floors with unusual drivetrains. The Chrysler Turbine ...

After nine years of experimenting, Chrysler Corp. last week demonstrated a gas-turbine engine for standard-model passenger cars, the first such engine in the U.S.* The engine, installed in a Plymouth ...