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
It's actually a '36, and I'd say you previous answer of 1937 is close enough. The difference is pretty subtle with so much sheet metal missing, but if you look at the window openings on a '36, they are much rounder (longer radius corners) than later Buicks.
Joe you sly devil you! How clever of you to drive us nuts by showing us two different makes and models to confuse us! A tan Pontiac and a grey Buick! Well you got me that's for sure. A flatty and a ohv. Kudo's my friend, kuro's.
The only pictures I posted were of a grey '36 Buick. That was 496CHEVY3100 who posted the pics of the tan 37 Olds. Sorry if that was confusing...:thumbup:
Yes it is all the same, I will say that calling it a passenger vehicle is pushing the limits of vehicle, but that wasn't up to me I just asked the question.:sweat::smash::thumbup:
By petrol are we talking about gasoline? There were earlier vehicles powered by internal combustion engines that were fueled by coal gas , hydrogen, and other combustible gases.
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:
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.
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.
have it in my book that he experimented but that's it, back in 1770, I have found things earlier than that.It's a question that can have many answers depending how you look at it I quess.
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, Also in 1771 he crashed into a stone wall ,making him the first recorded auto crash,
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