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Andy Dingley
 
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It was somewhere outside Barstow when Rick Cook
wrote:

IIRC the Chrysler turbine cars burned gasoline.


The "production" batch did, although only unleaded. Leaded gas caused
a problem with the regenerator seals. The interesting part of the
Chrysler wasn't that they built a jet car (Rover had done it 13 years
earlier), or even that they had this large test program with "normal"
drivers, but it was that they'd managed to build a car-sized turbine
with a regenerator.

The other Chryslers though, like the Firebird, the prototype Charger
and the race-trim Ghia that was used in the film "The Lively Set"
(awful film, but worth watching for the turbine car) burned Jet A-1
(kerosene).