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The Chrysler Turbine Car was the name given to the fifty automobiles which the Chrysler Corporation assembled in a small plant in Detroit, Michigan for use in a consumer test.
The bodies and interiors were crafted by Ghia in Italy. As each body was finished and shipped to Detroit, Chrysler employees installed gas turbine engines, transmissions and electrical components to prepare the cars for use by the 203 average motorists who were chosen to test them.
The Turbine Car was a two-door hardtop coupe with four individual bucket seats. The exterior was painted "Frost Fire Metallic" - later it was called "Turbine Bronze" and available on production automobiles. The roof were covered in black vinyl. The seats were done in a bronze colored "English calfskin" leather and the interior was covered with a plush-cut pile bronze colored carpet. Its most prominent design features were two large horizontal taillights and nozzles mounted inside a very heavy chrome sculptured bumper.
The car had power steering, power brakes, power windows, but no power seats. The car was only available with an automatic transmission. The "turbine theme" was carried through to the center console and the hubcaps. Even the tires were specially-made with small turbine vanes molded into the white sidewalls.
The dashboard was lighted with electroluminescent panels in the gauge pods and on a call-out strip across the dash. This system did not use bulbs; instead, a transformer raised the battery voltage to over 100 volts and passed that high voltage through special plastic layers, causing the gauges to glow with a blue-green light.
The car itself was designed in the Chrysler studios under the direction of Elwood P. Engle, who had worked for the Ford Motor Company before his move to Chrysler. The designer credited with the actual look of the car was Charles Mashigan, who designed a two-seat show car called the "Typhoon", which was displayed at the 1964 World's Fair in New York.