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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
 
#4,627 ·
The person that built the car was one of the ororiginal partners with someone who went on to become well known in the automotive feild. The car was a overhead cam engine. not a big car the best year theyy sold 4300 units.

you can look on the internet as I get my questions from a book. I think I have given a enough clues, that someone should get it. I like to make people use their hat holder for something besides holding hats.

Bob
 
#4,628 ·
I'll be darned! I found it!! Wills-St.Claire, 265 SOHC V-8, 67 hp.
HowStuffWorks "1922 Wills Sainte Claire A-68 Roadster"

I first searched "1922 V-8" and came up with the Peerless and Cadillac, nothing else. This time I added "OHC" to the search and there it was!! Darned good one...
 
#4,629 ·
I'll be darned! I found it!! Wills-St.Claire, 265 SOHC V-8, 67 hp.
HowStuffWorks "1922 Wills Sainte Claire A-68 Roadster"

I first searched "1922 V-8" and came up with the Peerless and Cadillac, nothing else. This time I added "OHC" to the search and there it was!! Darned good one...
 
#4,631 ·
As soon as 35terra confirms my answer (or tells me I'm wrong!) I'll come up with a question.... will try to come up with something non-AMC specific this time...
 
#4,632 ·
Sorry I took so long getting back but I had a Dr's app. this morning and I have to go 40 miles one way to see him.:pain::evil:

Farna as for your answer, you got it. you didn't say and I didn't ask but Chile Harold Wills was one of Henry Ford's original partners, just think of what they could have come up with if they had stayed together.

Bob:thumbup:
 
#4,633 ·
Here's a good one: What car had an electric starter built into the flywheel, so the flywheel could function as a motor for starting and a generator when the engine is running? Make and year!!
 
#4,636 ·
I'm having trouble understanding this. Does this vehicle use a starter motor to turn the flywheel attached to the crankshaft and once the engine is running the flywheel becomes the armature for the generator? I'm having trouble understanding the part where the flywheel is part of the starter .
I know of a older vehicle that uses the flywheel as a " armature" In the electrical system.
BB:confused::confused:
 
#4,635 ·
That would be correct! This might be where they got the idea...
It's called an "electric motor-generator".
If no one has a guess by tomorrow morning I'll give a big hint.
 
#4,637 ·
That's pretty much it -- the flywheel is the armature, or the armature coils are attached directly to the flywheel. Big hint: pre WWII. Of course everyone probably guessed that it must be something old...
 
#4,639 ·
You've got me searching to find that thing now! That's not the starter OR generator, that's the magneto! Model T Ford Electrical System. Thought you might have found something I didn't know about (I didn't know the magneto was made like that either though).

Okay, another hint. I said it wasn't AMC specific, and technically that's correct, but it is from one of AMC's predecessor companies... there are only three...
 
#4,640 ·
You've got me searching to find that thing now! That's not the starter OR generator, that's the magneto! Model T Ford Electrical System. Thought you might have found something I didn't know about (I didn't know the magneto was made like that either though).

Okay, another hint. I said it wasn't AMC specific, and technically that's correct, but it is from one of AMC's predecessor companies... there are only three...
 
#4,642 ·
That's it! I thought that one might be a bit too hard... It was only used in the 1913 Rambler, the car was renamed Jeffery for 1914. In 1918 Nash designed a completely new motor, they used the Jeffery stuff from the 1916 buy-out (Charles Nash bought Jeffery) until the new 1918 Nash models were introduced.

The floor is yours!
 
#4,646 ·
Now you are going to make me google it! Ok, AMX3. Funny thing is the door handles were a dead give away but I did remember the car also, but without the door handles I wouldn't have made the connection.

Brian

 
#4,647 ·
Yes it's AMC's AMX3, but you can't really call it a concept car. It actually went into production. They slated 30 of them but only 5 were compleated. Fed reg's killed them. Bumpers and such. Mid engine 390, 4 speed transaxle, Italian bodied and built in Turin. Beautiiful car. If only! This is a VERY interesting site. Don't miss it! AMX390 AMX/3

BB :thumbup:
 

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#4,648 ·
What an interesting read, I didn't know there were more than one made and knowing that five people out there own these cars, that is simply mind blowing, I had no idea. Very cool stuff there BB.

Brian
 
#4,650 ·
It wasn't federal regs that really killed the AMX/3 (they did have an impact on escalating development costs), it was Ford selling the DeTomaso Pantera. AMC wasn't expecting to sell but a few (30 is probably the right number) a year, but when Ford started selling the Pantera, a very similar car, for several thousand less than AMC could sell the AMX/3 even at a break-even price (which is all they ever intended), the project was cancelled. They didn't think they could sell even 25-30 a year with competition from the much lower priced Pantera. They were probably right -- there wasn't a bit "supercar" market, still isn't. Ford had the advantage of not having to foot any of the development bill for the Pantera. DeTomaso had already done everything, they were just buying motors from Ford. Don't know which had the idea to offer the cars in the US through Ford dealers, but it certainly was a good marketing move for DeTomaso.

It was discovered that Bizzarini, the Italian firm that built the prototypes (there really were no production cars, only six hand built protos) assembled another 3-4 cars and I think they called them the "Sabre". These were assembled from left-over and hand fabricated parts. I haven't found anything on them yet...
 
#4,651 ·
Ok, a softball for you guys. What three years was this axle used and why? If you don't know the brand of car then you aren't going to know the answer. It is a VERY well known axle and was used in a special model, not all made those three years used this axle.

Brian



 
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