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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
 
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This had the first "mass-produced" straight eight engine in the U.S.It was an extremely advanced and expensive automobile offering features such as single overhead camshafts, four-valve cylinder heads, and the first four wheel hydraulic brakes
 
#2,654 ·
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dinger said:
This had the first "mass-produced" straight eight engine in the U.S.It was an extremely advanced and expensive automobile offering features such as single overhead camshafts, four-valve cylinder heads, and the first four wheel hydraulic brakes
Well the brakes are what they called the world's first.

Dan you nave the floor. :thumbup: :thumbup:

Bob
 
#2,663 ·
I think this question is too vague, I just googled dangerous cars and there are a mess of them. The car I had in mind is here: http://www.autosavant.com/2007/08/08/cherys-turn-to-fail-a-cra****est/

For some reason the link is not working. Here's a piece of the article. Fiat and Chrysler have commitments to this company in 2007.

The test dummy became so entwined in the wreckage that it had to be removed from the car in pieces; he basically became part of the dashboard and steering wheel. The results were so bad that AvtoRevu called on Chery to immediately withdraw the car from the market. Chery declined to do so.

Jet, you were fairly close, take a turn.
 
#2,667 ·
35terraplane said:
I just had a e-mail of some guy that was texting, that hit the back of a semi- truck. I think it was a Honda but it was hard to tell, they took him out in chunks, as they showed them. They don't use live test dummies do they? :rolleyes: :mwink: :eek:

Bob
The gene pool gets another cleansing.

The crash test was done at 40 mph. This is/was a car that Chrysler had commitments to sell, I don't know if that deal is still on. I was perusing most dangerous cars, some had a '0' rating. :pain:
 
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jetnow1 said:
I would not consider the 61 chevy to be a mid size car, but the answer I am
looking for predates it by decades.
This is your question but it is kind of misleading. The true muscle car ERA did not start until the 60's, so anything decades before that would not be a muscle car, Gm had a v-8 in 1916, they had different size cars, but non that were a mid-size, the word mid-size would not even been a word back then or up through the 40s.

They had A V-8, A V12, A V-16, But they were not in mid -size cars, or were they muscle cars. even at the end of the 40s Cad. And Olds. had V-8s, but were not mid -size or muscle cars.

According to the wiki mid-size did not start until after 1960,

It's great you want to play the game we like that the more the merrier, and we can use any means to find a answer, but I don't think with what you asked we would ever get the answer. Now I could be out to lunch on this, but when you said muscle car and decades before 1960 it's not there.

Bob
 
#2,675 ·
It's pretty hard when there is no definitive answer. Many would say it was 61 with the 409 others would say 64 with the Goat, but other than that I personally have never heard the term "Muscle car" used other than some media type outsider.

Brian
 
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jetnow1 said:
I would define any manufacturer who made 3 or more sizes or models with
different wheelbases as having a mid size- what else would it be?
Granted they had different size cars, but the ones with the big engines were not cheap, they were Cadillac, they had big engines lots of CI, not very much horsepower, maybe in your eyes they were muscle cars, but no one else called them that. As far as the different size cars the wheelbase might have changed as little as 2", there again the factory did not call them mid-size, they were luxury cars for the high middle class, the rich, and the very rich.

Ford had the 4-CYL, and the V-8 Flathead. The first Flathead had 60 HP, hardly a muscle car, sure it was faster, but they were in the same size body.

GM had the 6 in there lower priced cars, then they made cars that cost more they put different engines in them, most of the time it was because who made the body for them for anyone car.

I could see where one might call them muscle cars, but believe me it was not the factory or anyone else of the day.

Bob
 
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