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1964 "Big Red" Ford Turbine Semi Truck 1904919802

Ford's advanced experimental "Big Red" truck represented a massive R&D effort by Ford. A major catalyst for the project was the potential for lucrative military gas turbine engine contracts unrelated to heavy trucks. "Big Red" made its public debut at the 1964-65 New York World's Fair.


Red and Gold 1964 Ford F100 Truck Packs BigBlock Muscle, Sounds Menacing autoevolution

Big Red's grand reveal took place alongside the Ford Mustang at the 1964 World's Fair in New York City, after which Ford schlepped it on a cross-country promo blitz with stops in major.


Photo Gallery 1964 Ford Big Red Gas Turbine Truck — Petersen Automotive Museum

The Incredible Rediscovery of Ford's 1-of-1 Turbine Semi-Truck History is littered with lost automotive treasures. Cars like the Bugatti 'La Voiture Noire,' despite or because of their value, have sometimes disappeared. Or, as is sometimes the case with concept cars, the spotlight faded, and they were discarded and forgotten.


Ford TurbinePowered SemiTruck 'Big Red' 1964

Turbine power was quite the fascination for car companies in the 1960s. Chrysler had its Turbine car, and Ford had Big Red. While a wide array of prototypes.


1964 Ford “Big Red” Gas Turbine Semi Truck YouTube

2.4K 301K views 7 years ago Unveiled at the 1964 World Fair, "Big Red" was a 96 ft long super-truck powered by an experimental gas turbine engine, designed for the "exciting decade ahead"..


Red and Gold 1964 Ford F100 Truck Packs BigBlock Muscle, Sounds Menacing autoevolution

A long-lost experimental turbine-powered Ford semi-truck has been tracked down after more than 40 years. (Ford) Big Red made its debut at the 1964 World's Fair in New York and was one of.


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History of 'Big Red'. Big Red was born from a turbine truck war between automotive giants, Ford and General Motors in the late 1940s. Ford won the race after creating the massive red prototype. According to The Drive, the 13-foot-tall, 96-foot-long vehicle had a gross weight of 180,000 pounds. The company unveiled the beast at the 1964.


MotorCities Remembering Big Red, Ford Motor Company's Concept Truck 2020 Story of the Week

By Alex Oagana Published Mar 18, 2021 How cans something so big just vanish from the public eye? With a 600 horsepower gas turbine engine that could haul not one, but two trailers at the same.


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Watch on. For those who don't know, Big Red was an experimental, turbine-powered semi-truck made by Ford in the mid-1960s. It was powered by a 600-horsepower turbine engine, was featured alongside.


1964 Ford Big Red Gas Turbine Truck Journal

It's Ford's 1964 "Big Red" Turbine truck - a truck with a turbine engine in it. The super transport prototype, built in '64, was recently found more than thirty years after it's last.


Who Remembers Ford's 'Big Red' Gas Turbine Truck? In 1964 … Flickr

2 1964 Ford Big Red Gas Turbine Truck (Courtesy of Ford Motor Company) Take a moment and enjoy our picture gallery of the 1964 Ford Big Red Gas Turbine Truck While turbine engines are common in military tanks, helicopters and jet airliners, their use in production automobiles has been quite limited.


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Photo Gallery 1964 Ford Big Red Gas Turbine Truck Journal

With a 600 horsepower gas turbine engine that could haul not one, but two trailers at the same time, and with amenities like a bathroom and TV, this was supp.


Ford Big Red Gas Turbine 1964 Concept Semi Truck 3D Model by DriverUA

The Big Red concept truck was designed and engineered by Ford Motor Company's Scientific Research Laboratory and styling team during the early 1960s. The 96-foot truck project was put together by Roy Lunn. The truck was launched on August 28, 1964 around the same time that the Ford Mustang was also being introduced to the public.


1964 Ford Big Red Gas Turbine Truck Ford Media Center

First seen at the 1964 World's Fair alongside a fun new car called the Mustang, Ford's "Big Red" was the automaker's experimental gas turbine semi-truck, a moonshot experiment built to lift.


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