Jay Leno’s shows off his rare 1963 powered by gasTurbine engine The car sounds like a giant vacuum cleaner at the Friday Classic car night at Bob’s Big Boy in Toluca Lake The fourth-generation Chrysler turbine engine ran at up to 60000 rpm and could use diesel fuel, unleaded gasoline, kerosene, JP-4 jet fuel, and even vegetable oil. The engine would run on virtually anything and the president of Mexico tested this theory by running one of the first cars–successfully–on tequila. Air/fuel adjustments were required to switch from one to another. only 50 were made