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The Chrysler turbine engine program that produced the Turbine Car began during the late 1930s and created prototypes that completed long-distance trips in the 1950s and early 1960s. The A-831 engines that powered the Ghia-designed Turbine Car could operate on many fuels, required less maintenance, and lasted longer than conventional piston engines.
The Ford Nucleon is a concept car developed by Ford in 1957, designed as a future nuclear-powered car—one of a handful of such designs during the 1950s and 1960s. The concept was only demonstrated as a scale model.
The Ford River Rouge complex (commonly known as the Rouge complex, River Rouge, or The Rouge) is a Ford Motor Company automobile factory complex located in Dearborn, Michigan, along the River Rouge, upstream from its confluence with the Detroit River at Zug Island.
Two-door cars have existed for about as long as cars have had doors but Rabold credits the real upsurge in “personal luxury” styling to the Ford Thunderbird. Introduced in 1955 as somewhat of ...
Shelby claimed he withdrew the cars for safety reasons, but they were actually withdrawn because changes in the Indianapolis 500 regulations had limited the ability of turbine-powered cars. [8] Hulme competed in the race driving a car powered by a Ford Indy V8 engine , while McLaren failed to qualify.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Ford CEO Jim Farley has a mantra: “No more boring cars.” And that’s the message from Ford Performance’s Season Launch this week in Charlotte, where the Big Three ...
General Motors researched the feasibility of gas turbine engines in cars as early as the 1940s. It was not until the early 1950s that the company began building an actual engine, under the direction of Charles L. McCuen, general manager of General Motors Research Laboratories, [1] with Emmett Conklin leading the project.
Cars back up at the light at Sherrills Ford Road and Island Point Road each morning and afternoon when parents drop off and pick up their kids at Sherrills Ford Elementary School, they said.