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Have to pick a small nit, not entirely correct to say that no one else has put a jet engine in a street legal car, there was in fact a "production" jet-engine b

Have to pick a small nit, not entirely correct to say that no one else has put a jet engine in a street legal car, there was in fact a "production" jet-engine based car 1962-64, the short-lived Chrysler Turbine (seen on "Jay Leno's Garage", CNBC)

mr_toad 9y ago
To nitpick a bit more, these engines would have had a secondary power turbine added to produce mechanical power. This would have reduced the exhaust pressure, so they wouldn’t have used a jet for propulsion. Rover actually produced the first car turbine engines back in the 40’s. http://www.rover.org.nz/pages/jet/jet5.htm http://www.rover.org.nz/pages/jet/jet5.htm https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rover-BRM https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rover-BRM