The Chrysler Turbine Car was part of a decades long effort by the Chrysler Corporation to develop a mass market gas turbine powered automobile. Building on work that began in the early 1950s, Chrysler launched a nationwide user experiment program with 50 hand-built Ghia bodied turbine cars in 1963. The cars were powered by a 130 hp regenerative gas turbine engine that ran on anything from kerosene to tequila and fed power to the rear wheels through a TorqueFlite transmission. Learn more by watch

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Virgil Exner's one-off 1955 Chrysler Ghia "Gilda" is a wind-tunnel-perfect show car built by Ghia in Turin for Chrysler, born from Exner's wild styling clay model. Though originally a styling exercise, owners later fitted a period-correct AiResearch single-stage gas turbine - roughly 70 hp at ~55,000 rpm - driving through a hydrostatic transmission, giving it otherworldly sound and behavior. Restored and shown at museums and high-profile auctions, the Gilda still looks like a future relic that s