Morning, Oppo! Have a rocket-powered turbo.

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Turbonique was an utterly insane speed parts company founded in 1962 by a former aerospace engineer who specialized in turbine engines and rockets. Most of the products his company sold were meant to make your car faster using... turbine engines and rockets. This advertisement is for their liquid-driven supercharger. It was basically just a turbocharger, but instead of the turbine being spooled up by the engine’s exhaust gasses, it was spooled up using a rocket engine. It was every bit as insane as it sounds, and yet, somehow, this was one of their least terrifying products. But that’s a story for another time...

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