Delivery Day, May 13, 1965

I am Mark Olson, in 1965 my father was the 160th user of the Chrysler Turbine Car Program. Here is a Chrysler publicity shot taken on May 13th 1965, the day that my family took possession of the Turbine Car (serial #991232) for three months.

In the photo below, the man on the far left is Mr. J.M Sturm, Manager - Plymouth Product Planning and Chief Engineer, Chrysler Corporation, my father and mother are next to him and that is me on the far right.

I was sixteen years old at the time. I had my drivers license and as long as my father was in the passenger side front seat, I could and did drive the car. I put about 5000 miles on it myself. We put over 12,000 miles on it total during our three months.

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