1965 NY World Fair video

[Meep-Meep]

Check out the parking lot! ....and the turbine cars. One of my work contacts went to this about 20 times and got to ride in the turbine cars. He said there was quite a line to get a ride but he stuck it out. He sent me this video.

http://archive.org/details/0701_Sinclair_at_the_Worlds_Fair

 

[tpodwdog]

cool vid.....funny how every dude in it kinda looks like Drew Carey ! . lol

 

[Ron 73]

Its funny, I remember my mom and dad talking about just how cool it must have been to be there, Only being 10 at the time i cant remember much concerning it but seems they advertized it all over the TV, everyone wanted to go to it. Thanks for the video there Meep.

 

[Mike Z]

Very Intresting. Looks Like A Much Simpler Time.

 

[pabster]

Great video! Thanks for posting!

 

[Richard Cranium]

My parents took me there when I was 6. My memories of it are very vague.

Here it is today....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNgrZ_GTcu8

 

[Hemi Rebel]

cool vid.....funny how every dude in it kinda looks like Drew Carey ! . lol

I'm just impressed they are not walking around with their pants halfway down their asses and referring to each other as mother f*@%er.

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Very Intresting. Looks Like A Much Simpler Time.

Looks it, but it wasnt. The Kennedy assasination was still fresh in the mind. We were just getting involved in Vietnam. The british invasion was in full effect. Not that that was a bad thing, but I'm sure the older generations were none to pleased. My grand parents included.

 

[Roadcuda]

My parents took me there when I was 6. My memories of it are very vague.

Here it is today....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNgrZ_GTcu8

I was also there and was 12 but I also don't really remember too much of it. But I seem to recall it was quite an experience being there.

 

[Meep-Meep]

My parents took me there when I was 6. My memories of it are very vague.

Here it is today....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNgrZ_GTcu8

Sad indeed.

 

[Budnicks]

thanks Meeps & Dick, those were interesting...

 

[Dennis H]

My grandparents took me there on a bus from Allentown. I was age 13. Remember it clearly. Stayed at the Hotel Dixie, took the subway, went to Coney Island too. Also remember the Ford exhibit with the Mustang ride. Amazing stuff. Memorable trip.

 

[65 Plymouth Satellite 426]

When Was The Last Time You Pulled Into A Service Station And Had Your Windshield Cleaned? Oh For The Old Days Again!

 

[Dennis H]

When Was The Last Time You Pulled Into A Service Station And Had Your Windshield Cleaned? Oh For The Old Days Again!

How about Atlantic Red Ball service?

 

[actionange1]

I visited several times as I lived in Brooklyn at the time. I was 10/11 years old. It was cool to see the Chrysler Turbine cars as a futuristic type vehicle. See how far they got...?
I distinctly remember almost getting trampled to death one night in a large crowd after a fireworks display.
Life WAS much more simple back then.

 

[68 Sport Satellite]

Coincidentally, yesterday on 101 Cars You Must Drive ( I think on the Speed Channel), they visited a museum (can't remember where) and drove 1 of 20 Chrysler Turbine cars left in existence. They said that Chrysler destroyed all the rest at the end of their testing program. I think the car on the show was a late 50's car and it was like a light wine or mauve color. You could really hear the turbine and it had a specific start up and shut down procedure inside. The RPM's at idle were 22,000! Pretty cool stuff.

 

[64BEL]

Coincidentally, yesterday on 101 Cars You Must Drive ( I think on the Speed Channel), they visited a museum (can't remember where) and drove 1 of 20 Chrysler Turbine cars left in existence. They said that Chrysler destroyed all the rest at the end of their testing program. I think the car on the show was a late 50's car and it was like a light wine or mauve color. You could really hear the turbine and it had a specific start up and shut down procedure inside. The RPM's at idle were 22,000! Pretty cool stuff.

That was at the Walter P. Chrysler Museum at Auburn Hills, MI. Jay Leno has one of the turbine cars, too. There's a ton of information on them at this site: http://www.turbinecar.com/turbine.htm

 

[Meep-Meep]

You mean this guy? I took these pics at the Spring Fling this year.