Turbine in Bronze

Chrysler's wonderful 1963 Ghia-bodied turbine car

by Leon Mandel

And I tell you a ship so brilliantly conceivedWas never meant to float.I tell you softly the Titanic sank. -John Quinn There is a good deal of weirdness around Highland Park, Michigan, these days what with life rafts being thrown over the sides of the Walter P. Chrysler building, Joe Garagiola barking about rebates like a rabid blue tick hound, and The Dodge Boys tricked out as Salvation Army look-alikes playing "Nearer My God to Thee" for the benefit of former Lt. J.E. Carter, U.S.N. Which is not to say the indentured servants in Chrysler Corp's R&D bunkers would have any hints about the imminence of catastrophe. Like the black gang on the Unsinkable Ship, these poor devils are slaving away at salvation unaware about temporal matters like icebergs or bankruptcies. In fact, the…

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MotorTrend (Digital) - 1 Issue, November 1979

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