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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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First Vehicle

There is going to be several parts to this question, and yes you may use google.

1 What country makes the claim of having the first gas-powered vehicle?

2 In what year was this self-propelled vehicle built?

3 What kind of vehicle was it?

4 What was the size of the engine? How many HP?

5 What did the engine drive to drive the vehicle?

I think there might be some debut over this we will see.

Bob
 
#6,920 ·
I said I would give you what I had, and what I had was petrol. Most of the time when I hear someone from across the pond refer to petrol it is gasoline they are talking about. What they called petrol back in the late 1800's I don't know.
I suppose petrol could refer to just fuel, which as you know could be many things , but I'm going with gasoline.:thumbup:

Sorry I can't give you more but that's all I have.:(:smash:

Bob
 
#6,921 ·
Now we have Germany's Siegfried Marcus who built a gasoline powered vehicle in 1875. Four Stroke, not much hp chain and belt driven, four wheeled carriage.
This was his second car. The first one was powered by a two cycle engine. The vehicle was nothing more than a non-steerable cart he built in 1870.

BB :thumbup:

Neat guy. He also invented the plunge type explosive detonator.
 

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#6,922 ·
Well that one beats out this one by a few years, even though this is claimed to be the first passenger vehicle. It would have been a debate anyway as it was a kids tricycle. The engine was 122 cc with a HP of 0.024. it was first used to power a sewing machine, then he put one in his boys tricycle.

He being a guy by the name of Enrico Bernardi of Italy.

They called it the first Italian petrol-car, which had the claim to be the first such car in the world, was built in 1884.

there would have been a lot to debate on thi one for sure, I was just trying to find a quik question.

Looking into my book I found that a guy by the name of Jean-Joseph Etienne Lenoir in 1863 built a three wheeled carriage which he put his engine in, a single cylinder which had a capacity of 2,543 cubic centimetres 92.5 litres, or 155 cubic inches),which would be later called "oversquare" dimensions of 180 by 100 millimetres. Maximum power was 1.5 hp at a speed of 100 rpm.
He drove this vehicle 7 miles. It took 90 minutes each way, slower than a man could walk.

Now I quess I asked a question that I should have known more about.

BB being you had a answer earlier than mine and then I found one earlier that, I will give you the floor.

By the way old Jean was French and later became big in boats.

Bob
 
#6,925 · (Edited)
yea ,that's why I didn't post an answer ,seems every article tells a little different story,the article I have says he made 4 cars and a 4 passenger tricycle with a 122 cu in engine ,,That's a trike, the last few I have posted seems to be wrong or in question,like the last post Nash,:confused::confused: Also in 1771 he crashed into a stone wall ,making him the first recorded auto crash,
 
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