Read more: The 12 Fastest F1 Cars Of All Time, Ranked In the fall of 1945, the Bureau of the Aeronautics of the U.S. Navy awarded Chrysler a contract to build a gas turbine engine for aircraft use.

The fate of the gas-turbine Rovers would follow that of their equivalent cars from other manufacturers including the Chrysler covered ... by the 1960s the piston engine had improved immeasurably ...

In the 1960s, Chrysler built a handful of cars powered by aircraft-style turbine engines. And where does one take a turbine when it's in need of a rebuild? To the original manufacturer ...

Chrysler did its part to try and create the car of the future, by attempting to build vehicles with an innovative propulsion method: a turbine engine, which had been used extensively in aircraft ...

Back in the 1930s when climate change was still in the realm of science fiction, Chrysler began development of a turbine engine. Unlike a petrol car, a turbine could run on more or less anything ...

The new engine is a gas turbine affair—adapted in principle from the turbojet airplane engine—which Chrysler has been working on for years (TIME, March 29, 1954). A compressor forces air into ...