Chrysler's turbine car
Subtitle: the rise and fall of Detroit's coolest creation
By: Steve Lehto
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781569765494
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The promise of the jet age; title: Chrysler's first "jet" car; title: The fourth-generation engine : Chrysler's viable automotive powerplant; title: The Ghia turbine car; title: The user program : the ultimate public relations event; title: The globe-trotting Ghia; title: Other Ghias in America; title: The user experiment; title: Wrap-up of the user program; title: The beginning of Chrysler's financial decline; title: The problem of smog; title: Chrysler's financial troubles; title: Other manufacturers and the turbine; title: The death of the turbine program; title: The survivors; title: Going for a ride in Jay Leno's Ghia; title: Epilogue.