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.
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
I'll let someone else answer this one. But whats interesting about this item is that instead of replacing the affected items at a cost of about $50 bucks , the manufacturer used these at a cost of about a buck. Probably ran out of bailing wire.
Anti-lift cable assembly and they were normally only on the left side. Only the early "fix" cars got them on both. Once GM figured out the engine didn't lift on the right, they discontinued putting them on there.
I parted cars out for "fun" money during the mid to late seventies. I threw more of those away than I can remember and now they bring good money from the restoration crowd.
And BTW - those of us who ran big block cars at the strip ran a chain on the left side to restrain the engine's movements. Went from the shock tower to a header bolt, to keep the engine from moving enough to rip up the mount.
The fear was that you would rip the left side mount out and shear the right-side one when the engine moved too far over. Never heard of anyone actually hurting the ride-side one, but "word got around".....
So - long before GM put the cables on to catch the engine if the mount broke, we were making it sure it DIDN'T break!
Also on bbc Chevelles with factory Muncie shifter engine woluld torque to the right it would not come out of gear and also have had the cluch stay on the floor until engine settled down ,,Hunt the chain, LOL:thumbup:
We also used a chain bolted to where the front mounts would be an a 55 -57 chevy , the other end we wraped around frame and put a bolt thru it ..a poor mans fix They worked
If the "fix" had an official name of a person, I don't recall ever hearing it. Safety cables, and names of that sort are all that ever circulated in this area.
The name that GM used in their send out letter was just "restraints". Here's the letter. Eventually their developed and started installing the inter-locking motor mount but that recall included at least six years of cars. No need to rush into anything. GM, sheesh!
Another question as to "why" it took Chevrolet so long to address the problem is "why" didn't they just go to the cable system that had been in use on other GM lines since '64 ???? Throttle cables eliminated the bind of a shaft...
The reason they didn't address the problem was because it was cheaper to put the band aid on rather fix the problem. The repair cost a buck. Replacing the motor mounts would cost about $50. I would assume that they were commited to a specific number of mounts by contract with the supplier. Eventully the mounts were modified with the inter-locking plates. Sometime read Delorean's " On a clear day you can see General Motors" It's a very interesting read. Chevy wasn't as progressive as one might think. And cheap also!
I read a book on marketing back about 20 years ago, forget the name but at that time it said that Chevrolet spent more on marketing than any other brand on earth at that time.
As we all know that would be the 1904 Acme. It turned out it was a short lived perpetual guarantee.
They went out of business in 1911. Their lack of sucess in the automobile business was turned around later on when the motion picture was developed by Thomas Edison.
They started a business supplying props to Warner Bros.
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