Indeed, the turbine was one of Engel's first designs with Chrysler, and it was loosely based on some Thunderbird clays he had overseen while at ford.
I think there are some real good B&W photos of all of this in the website under the Turbine car. Kenyon and the guys have this area well covered with some unique literature.
Chris Middlebrook
1962 Custom Southampton
--- On Fri 05/05, Greg and Russell < 65luxuryliner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > wrote:
From: Greg and Russell [mailto: 65luxuryliner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 07:05:33 -0500
Subject: IML: Chrysler Turbine (an amazing resemblance)
Surely others have noticed but no one has mentioned this. The Chrysler Turbine bears an amazing resemblance to the '61 thru '63 Thunderbirds (imho). I own a '63 Monaco Landau Thunderbird so maybe I'm just a little biased. Did Elwood Engel have anything to do with the design of the Turbine? If so, it would come as no surprise to me. His design for the '64 Imperial borrowed styling cues from the extremely popular (then) '61 Continental. And as many of you know, the Continental started out as a Thunderbird. The two cars were even built at the same plant (Wixom). Just curious...
Greg McDonnell
'65 Crown convertible
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