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aeronca65t

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In the late 1940's, Rover began to dither around with jet-turbine engines. They built a number of experimental street cars and eventually, the LeMans-racing Rover-BRM driven by Graham Hill and Jackie Stewart.
Here's a nice page that briefly covers the Rover jet-turbine cars.

https://www.rover.org.nz/pages/jet/jet5.htm

Rover-BRM turbine powered endurance racer
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Chrysler had several turbine powered cars starting in 1954. In 1964/65 they were even "loaning" them out for three months at a time to selected individuals. Sadly most of the 45 cars in that program were destroyed. See the story www.turbinecar.com
 
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