The Ghia Turbine Car Prototype: Roots of the Charger.

[Brock Samson]

 The site i posted before with all the barracuda concepts had this page with pics of the original design for the Turbine Car...
i just noticed it.
The guy who translated this into the four passanger Proof Of Concept prototypes was the Ford Thunderbirds' designer BTW:

(bottom of the page)

http://www.automobileart.homestead.com/ChryslerConceptCars.html

"The Chrysler turbines had reached the point where production would be practical, and the decision to make a special, limited-production turbine car with different styling was reached. Tom Golec, supervisor of car development, said that low-volume tooling for a 500-vehicle production run had already been ordered, and a no-slip clutch unit was developed (but not used because of its cost). The project, for whatever reason, was cancelled, and the special body became the Charger (but with a different grille)."


http://www.autoweteran.gower.pl/concept/1963_Chrysler_Turbine.jpg


and the cudas...

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.automobileart.homestead.com/files/cuda72l.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.automobileart.homestead.com/CarConceptArt4.html&h=156&w=300&sz=13&hl=en&start=200&tbnid=nf8ed3ZyhyFx2M:&tbnh=57&tbnw=111&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dchallenger%2Bconcept%26start%3D180%26ndsp%3D20%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DN

[Brock Samson]

i'm bumpin this just because i don't think many folks know the charger was supposed to be turbine powered..