New Book Chrysler’s Turbine Car Says Bureaucracy Killed American Triumph
October 15th, 2010 - 12:13 am ICT by Angela Kaye MasonOct 14 (THAINDIAN NEWS) In 1953, the Chrysler Corporation quietly built a successful jet powered car. No on in America new about it, not even people within the company new about it, the project was kept very “hush hush”.
In December of that year, George Huebner Jr and a few of his colleagues rolled the top secret jet engined car out of the garage of the Highland Michigan plant. It was a 1954 Plymouth Belvedere. The car seemed normal enough, until they cranked it up. It was then that the jet engine sounds gave it away.
This jet propelled car could have been one of America’s finest engineering triumphs, according to a new book written by Steve Lehto entitled ‘Chrysler’s Turbine Car’, ‘The Rise and Fall of Detroit’s Coolest Creation’. The author explains how bureaucracy killed the project, and perhaps contributed to the downward slump of America’s dependence on other countries for oil.
See the video embedded below for a glimpse at this amazing car.
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