Something I've never seen before...

[originalJD]

I'd say it looks kinda cool but, um, well, it's just weird.


1966 Turbo Titan Chevy

[PrerunnerRob]

I have never seen that before, but I doubt it has problems with front brake airflow! Where did you find that?

[originalJD]

I was surfing photobucket and stumbled onto it.

[PrerunnerRob]

i see it says "turbine" on the trailer, I wonder if the truck was powered by a turbine ??? That would explain the massive air scoops.

[Rogue]

Yep turbine power!

A friend visiting today had been at Peterson when they moved the Tubine Pontiac.
They just fired it up an drove it around.

He said it smelled just like Jet A!

I want to build a Turbine Golf cart!

[PrerunnerRob]

Originally Posted by Rogue

Yep turbine power!

A friend visiting today had been at Peterson when they moved the Tubine Pontiac.
They just fired it up an drove it around.

He said it smelled just like Jet A!

I want to build a Turbine Golf cart!

mmmmm, jet fuel!

I was at a local state university lately, they use high pressure natural gas and steam through a jet turbine to provide power for the whole school, and use the waste heat for multiple boilers. Sweet!

[OARNGESI]

Cool truck imagine having that pass you on the freeway

[Oregoon]

That was an experimental gas turbine truck.

I read about it somewhere. I guess they decided not to go forward due to the heroic quantities of fuel it consumed.

Bear in mind that the mid 'sixties were the last hurrah for gasoline powered semis. Big name makers of big displacment engines (Hall-Scott, Buda, Continental, etc) either folded, or rethought their product line as diesel finally conquered the market.

Though they'd been available since the 'thirties, diesels of the era were heavy, inefficient and underpowered.

Cummins, for example, offered the 220 as a standard, which displaced 743 cubes, made an anemic 220 horses and about 500 lb-fts, whereas a Hall-Scott Model 400 made 280 horses, and 670 lb-ft. Both got about 2-4 mpg...

While big gas remained popular, economics eventually caught up, as did technology. Still, it took thirty years for the transportation business to realize diesel is a lubricant, and therefore diesel engines lasted longer.

Sorry. I'm a trucker, and a bit of a truck history geek.

[62 short step]

Originally Posted by Oregoon

That was an experimental gas turbine truck.

I read about it somewhere. I guess they decided not to go forward due to the heroic quantities of fuel it consumed.

Bear in mind that the mid 'sixties were the last hurrah for gasoline powered semis. Big name makers of big displacment engines (Hall-Scott, Buda, Continental, etc) either folded, or rethought their product line as diesel finally conquered the market.

Though they'd been available since the 'thirties, diesels of the era were heavy, inefficient and underpowered.

Cummins, for example, offered the 220 as a standard, which displaced 743 cubes, made an anemic 220 horses and about 500 lb-fts, whereas a Hall-Scott Model 400 made 280 horses, and 670 lb-ft. Both got about 2-4 mpg...

While big gas remained popular, economics eventually caught up, as did technology. Still, it took thirty years for the transportation business to realize diesel is a lubricant, and therefore diesel engines lasted longer.

Sorry. I'm a trucker, and a bit of a truck history geek.

Nothing wrong with that!!

[Oregoon]

I got nothing on this guy: http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/trucks.htm

Scroll down. Click. View. Repeat.

Cool (and enourmous) collections of random trucking photos from the last 100 years.