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Chevrolet Astro III

The Sixties saw a raft of starry-eyed futurists insist that gas turbines were destined to usurp the internal combustion engine. Chrysler in particular was evangelical about this method of propulsion. General Motors also experimented, not least with turbine-equipped commercial vehicles which it promised would be hitting the highways by 1971.

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