Vintage Literature: 1966 Chevrolet Turbo Titan III
What was new in the world of trucking 40 years ago? If you said little more than a polished Mack bulldog or a new two-stroke oil burner from Detroit Diesel, you'd be on the money. Perhaps that's why Chevrolet's Turbo Titan III, a racy road ranger for the jet age, wowed crowds - and shocked the American Trucking Association - when it was unveiled in 1966.
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Built upon a mundane Chevrolet tilt cab chassis, the Turbo Titan III was Chevy's third experiment with a gas turbine-powered truck, but the first actively shown to the public. Perhaps that's why designers labored over its appearance. A sloped fiberglass cab teetered over the front axle, sporting large air intakes and a chiseled front fascia. Windows opened upwards, revealing twin dials in lieu of the steering wheel. Tri-beam headlamps rotated from within the air intakes, while turn signals, acting much like illuminated semaphores, protruded from the body when activated. A matching trailer with side skirts, custom-built by Fruehauf, didn't hurt appearances, either.
But what mattered most lied within the beast itself. The engineers within GM's Research Laboratories donated a new GT-309 gas turbine and coupled it to a customized six-speed Allison automatic (sans torque converter). The motor generated only 280 hp at 4000 rpm, but generated (as most turbines do) a whopping amount of torque at stall speed. Chevrolet claimed they measured close to 850 lb-ft at just above 0 rpm, allowing a fully-laden Titan to get up and moving with little difficulty.
Still, for something billed as the "shape of things to come," neither the Turbo Titan III nor the gas turbine made any inroads to highway transportation. After traveling the auto show circuit between 1966 and 1967, the Titan was briefly used as a parts hauler before being scrapped. And while GM played with gas turbines in trucks until the mid 1970s, the rising cost of oil - and the poor fuel economy of the turbine - led to its abandonment.
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Wonderfull article, i knew of this truck by a small booklet (Alken Reeks, Autowereld van morgen = Carworld of tommorrow)from the early seventies. I was looking for more senty-ish design/styling trucks/cabs to determine some model i recently found. They are plastic Hong Kong toys, and I just wont believe that these chinese could have designed it them selves but made copies of some sort. But of what? Tonka? I didnt find any models identical. If anyone has a clue, please let me know.
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