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#1 ·
We started a trivia thread over at another forum and it has been a lot of fun.

Here are the ground rules. It starts with one question. The first reply with the right answer gets the floor for a new question. It continues like that unless, A) the person who has the floor doesn't ask a new question, or B) no one gets the correct answer. In that case, the person with the floor asks a new question. No more than one question on the floor at a time, and discussion/clarification is welcome until the floor is taken over by a new question.

See this thread for an example of how it goes: http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/forum/off-topic-discussion/trivia/1454/page1/

First question: In the 1952 Indy 500, what type of fuel was burned in the record-setting pole-position #28 car? Hint: it won pole position by a full 4 mph over the second-place Ferrari
 
#6,328 ·
Hey cool! a Bricklin! Note: Bricklin's are acrylic, NOT fiberglass. A lot of them were ruined by well intentioned people painting them without sealing the acrylic. Fiberglass panels are available. I knew a guy who had one and had trouble with the hydraulic gullwing doors. Apparently you shouldn't open both doors at the same time or it blows the ram...His wife refused to accept this. His was the only AMC powered one Ive ever seen and it was this HIDEOUS orange color.

Dont insult Tim Hortons by comparing it to Dunkin...its way better than Dunkin and cheaper
 
#6,332 ·
My buddy has a Bricklin, he would love to restore it but I think he realizes it would be a major undertaking, he's 78 and not in the best of health anymore. The doors are the biggest PITA. He drove the car for many years but it got to be problematic and he parked it. I should ask him what he is going to do with the car. I researched them a few years back, they aren't worth a lot. :pain:
 
#6,333 ·
According to the guy I knew that had one (not exactly first hand info, sorry); there is a retrofit kit to actuate the doors with electrics instead of the hydraulics. Its not cheap, but it takes a pile of weight out of the car and boiling hydraulic fluid out of the cockpit. The nice thing was most of the wear items are available from Napa (I seem to remember that his front suspension was all AMC Hornet or something, and had a smogger 360 in it). You CAN paint the body, you just need a sealer that will protect the acrylic body panels. The problems started with the acrylic enamels. I don't know if you have to use a waterborne sealer, but the Bricklin Owners website can probably give you all the info you need
 
#6,337 · (Edited)
The Model A with out the visor was the Victoria. I saw one in Indiana at the Auburn Museum. I don't know why they were visorless except that the body was made by the Murray Co. One thing I noticed is that the door shows only a lower hinge. The upper portion is smooth. Was the body wider? Upon a closer look I find that the upper hinge is on the windshield post. The windshield is slanted back.

Here's one for you Brian. How about a factory Model A Three Window Coupe without a visor! It's a prototype for the 1932 Ford but its a Model A!

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#6,338 ·
I have never seen that 3 window, wild. You are half right, the Vicki was one of them, there is another that didn't have a outside visor just as the Vicki.

Brian
 
#6,348 ·
DAMN I love stuff like that. I want to buy a ticket, really, what would it cost? Put that thing down here at Sears point raceway Sonoma Raceway and charge for rides, how much? How much is it going to cost me so I can start saving up my mad money! DAMN that must be wild!

Brian
 
#6,371 ·
Bingo! Art passed in 1977 at the age of 81. He was buried in a green coffin in his white Firestone fire suite with wrenches in his hands. Along side of him was his engine manual for a J-79 jet engine and at his feet was a jar of salt from the Bonniville Salt Flats. Very heady times in the sixty's battling it out with not only Breedlove but his brother Walt , Donald Campbell, Doc Ostich and others. A new land speed record every week, sometimes days!





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