This is one of the coolest cars I've ever documented and so unique that most people don't even know about them. It's a 1962 Oldsmobile Jetfire, one of 3,765 produced, and, along with the Chevrolet Corvair Monza, is the first turbocharged production passenger car ever made in the United States.

The car was still sitting on its original bias-ply tires. A peek in the trunk revealed two gallons of Olds' "Turbo-Rocket" water-methanol injection mix still stashed away. I opened the door to a nearly perfect silver and black bucket-seat interior. The car had only rolled a little more than 44,000 miles—this thing was like new.

Making the car even more rare was its factory four-speed with the one-year-only console and that turbocharger fluid-injection gauge, which was basically an early boost gauge. If you were cruising, the needle was in the green Economy zone; if you were hard on it, it would be in the red Power zone.

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Under the hood, the original 215ci V8 and turbo were perfectly preserved, but the original battery had seen better days. The only thing missing that we could see was the factory "emergency" Turbo-Rocket fluid container. Otherwise, everything looked to be factory original.