Found a great piece of speed equipment today - Turbonique

I was thinking the same thing!

VERY cool find there! Wild stuff

 

...a local guy bought one at a garage sale recently (twin Turbonique go-cart) that had been stored for 40 years. It was evil to look at. His research indicated the problem occured when you backed off the throttle.....the fuel ac***mulation in the spherical housings, used to grenade and blow part or all of the driver's head off.....helmet or not.

 

I thought you just lit 'em off and they were full throttle until you ran out of fuel? Which is REAL scarey on the go-cart with a prop.
Larry T

 

The last one on ebay that was NOS & in the box (the large model) sold for 10k. I'm surprised that 16k wouldn't be enough.

 

Just read the thread about this thing and the company that built it, I couldn't stop laughing- sounds fantastic I really want one!

 

I saw this cart at a cruise night a couple years ago.

 

...that's the one I saw too....

 

Sweet find...

 

I found a website a couple of years ago about a guy building something similar using a turbocharger and a combustion chamber to power an oversized go kart. He had a video where he would use like a leafblower to spin it up before the combustion would take place and keep it running. Don't remember what he used for fuel, but, I don't think it was anything exotic. It was pretty cool.

 

That is too cool!! What a score!!

 

Get the Doc to write you a prescription for it....as an anti depressant

 

An education that could only be found on the HAMB. You'd have to have some fore-knowledge to find those links. Thanks for bringing this to our attention. COOOOOL Find!

Doug.

 

Was everyone bat **** crazy in the sixties.

 

That thing is stellar!

 

Just the thing for the person with EVERYTHING--except a brain LOL. Just sayin, i don't like the idea of having to be at full throttle until it runs out of fuel. I guess ya take some LSD, then smoke a joint to mellow out--then go play on the go carts WTF, over!

 

Maybe it went thru the traps at 183, upside down, 4 feet in the air, with the turbojet still blasting?

 

Really cool piece. Nice score

 

Just the ones using mind altering drugs..hmm I guess so then.

 

Sweet piece of antiquated technology! Wish it found me!

 

Coolest thing I ever found in a s**** pile was a factory dual-quad Nailhead intake. This pretty much blows that away!

 

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turbonique has some wild stuff. i first heard of them with the zach reynolds galaxie and the turbonique " rocket drag axle " pictured above in a different car. wild ****

 

I recall the Chevelle in a Hot Rod magazine article...First run with the Turbonique axle when lit off in low gear immediately over-revved the 396 and blew the engine.
Not sure what steps were taken after that, but seem to recall they switched over to an automatic ******.
That drag axle was ingenius: there was a second pinion gear at the rear of the diff, driving the same ring gear...(must have been Getz!)