I biught a magazine article at the Elmhurst swap meet last weekend of a 66 Dart called the Turbine Dart. I have found some info about it which I will post later when I have time. Pretty cool. I have never heard of this car before. tmm
Did that thing have an 8 lug full floating rear end? It sure looks like that in the first pic.
The first two pictures are from the few slides my dad managed to save from all the time he spent at Oswego drag raceway. The third and fourth pics were taken at Great Lakes Dragway, photographer unknown( I found these pics on the HAMB).
There is also a you tube video from Oswego in 1968 that shows the dart in action.
i read an article about these once, the turbine was fed by a premixed fuel and oxidiser, you could run the car with out the turbine on the street and run one, the other, or both at the track, there was a beetle that had one that was quite fast in the day
So how did this work ? Looks like the turbine spun a backwards mounted pinion. If so, how could you drive it with the standard engine/trans since the driveshaft would need a front mounted pinion...unless there were 2 pinions.....I like it:burnout: