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>A Chrysler VP told Look
magazine our main objective is research, and we did not want turbines turning up
on used car lots”. “If the cars were sold to the public, it may have
turned out even worse for Chrysler from a public relations perspective. Without
spare parts to keep the cars running, they would have soon been consigned to
scrap yards anyway. Or worse, after the turbine engines failed, the owners
would have to shoehorn something else under the hood to keep the car running.
The final result might have seen “turbine” cars being driven around with piston
engines under their hoods.
>The five cars that went to museums had
the fan assemblies from the gas generators removed from the engines to render
the cars nonfunctional, for display only.
So instead of destroying them, Chrysler could have
donated them to research facilities, such as Stanford. Carnegie-Mellon, MIT, etc
and effectively 'open sourced' them, to let the engineers have a crack at
improving the systems.
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