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10. "RE: Writing process question"
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>>Legend has it that President Adolfo López Mateos of Mexico ran
>>one of Chrysler's experimental turbine cars on tequila, when he was
>>presented with one to try out in the early 1960s.
>
><snrk> Does legend have anything to say about what kind of mileage (if
>any), top speed (if any), or major incendiary events (if plural) he
>got out of it...?

It is reported to have worked normally, per Chrysler's engineers' expectations. Gas turbines will run on just about any flammable liquid, after all, and the one used in Chrysler's prototype cars was not stupendously powerful nor running near the mechanical limits of its materials.

The Turbine did not get amazingly good fuel mileage under normal conditions anyway, it has to be said—circa 19 mpg highway and 11ish around town are the figures I've seen quoted—but one must keep in mind that no one particularly gave a shit about that in 1964.

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