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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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Ok guys, itis a 1932 Graham Blue Streak 8 Coupe'. Actually the BlueStreak 8 was the engine designation but the Press and the Public re-named the vehicle. What is significant about this car is the skirting on the fenders and rear frame geometry. The rear end was set up with the differential passing through the frame and the spring perches being attached to the side of the frame rather than on the bottom which allowed he car to sit much lower. The skirting on the rear of the fenders along with the inner side of the fenders which continued down past the frame covered the frame from view. Apparently a first. This styling was copied through out the American auto world. Very influential styling indeed.

The trailer is a Curtiss Aerocar Land Yacht built by the Curtiss Aerocar Company Inc. of Opa Locka, Florida. Glen Curtiss being the owner. Curtiss was a avid camper and hunter and this was the catalyst to building a number of different trailer. All very innovative.
Dave got it right first but he admitted to Gaggling it. John was closest with guessing Graham Page (Paige) but didn't finish the rest of the question.

One of you two jump in with a question.

( Note: I included Opa Locka, Florida only because I may never get another chance to say Opa Locka!)

BB :thumbup::thumbup:
 

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#6,974 ·
And believe it or not, this particular one was owned by a New York banker who used it to commute to his office from his Long Island home. (and No, I do not understand why someone would commute from Long Island to NYC in something that would be virtually impossible to drive - never mind park - in city traffic!)

Go for it, John!
 
#6,989 ·
Before hoists were commonplace there were pits dug in the ground to access the underside of cars, a pit. I'm assuming that early race tracks could have had these pits for easy access under the cars, the pits. So, when the cars stopped it could have been an easy jump to reference that stop as stopping at the pits, a pit stop.

Places such as Jiffy Lube still use a form of a pit but it is more of a full basement with ventilation. The small pits that were basically a hole in the ground constructed of cement had problems with fumes accumulating in them or so I understand.
 
#6,996 ·
The term Pit Stop derived from the new innovation and a automobile racing rule change that came about in the 1908 and 1910 Vanderbilt Cup Race. A three hundred foot long trench was dug and lined with lumber for the purpose of storing fuel, parts, tires and all the other items to keep the race cars running. In 1910 the rules were changed from only the driver and riding mechanic being allowed to work on the cars to having assistance from additional mechanics down in the "pits".
How would you like to be in the "pits" when a out of control raced was headed into the same area of the "pits" that you were occupying?

They were described in the October 1, 1908 issue of The Automobile :


"Spectators on the homestretch will be treated to a noteworthy innovation in the establishment of a depressed official supply stations stretching for 300 feet in front of the grandstand. it will take the form of a pit 10 feet wide and 5 feet deep, and will be reached by a switch from the main course. Here will be kept tires, oil, water and gasoline. The heads of the mechanics will be visible above the edges of the pit. Not only will the passing of supplies and filing of tanks be seen, but the interesting operation of the quick-changing of tires also. "


BB :thumbup::thumbup:

Somebody jump in here.

That last picture----Thats racing!
 

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#6,999 ·
Awesome stuff BB, my uncles raced midgets all over California in the 30's and it wasn't much better, that nads those guys had!

So on the trivia......what was this cable commonly called and why?

Brian

 
#7,001 ·
That's one of the names, but not the one I was looking for. :mwink:

I remember doing a neutral drop in my mom's 68 Impala convertible ( :rolleyes: ) and breaking the motor mount with the throttle locking wide open! LOL, not good. That car by the way was a rare beast from what I understand. It had not one single option like ac or power anything, except steering and brakes. But it had a quadrajet on the 327 and a TH400! It only had 19K miles on it and was like brand spanking new when my dad bought it for her around 1973.

Brian
 
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