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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
 
#7,003 ·
Anti-lift cable assembly and they were normally only on the left side. Only the early "fix" cars got them on both. Once GM figured out the engine didn't lift on the right, they discontinued putting them on there.

I parted cars out for "fun" money during the mid to late seventies. I threw more of those away than I can remember and now they bring good money from the restoration crowd.
 
#7,007 ·
And BTW - those of us who ran big block cars at the strip ran a chain on the left side to restrain the engine's movements. Went from the shock tower to a header bolt, to keep the engine from moving enough to rip up the mount.

The fear was that you would rip the left side mount out and shear the right-side one when the engine moved too far over. Never heard of anyone actually hurting the ride-side one, but "word got around".....

So - long before GM put the cables on to catch the engine if the mount broke, we were making it sure it DIDN'T break!
 
#7,021 ·
The reason they didn't address the problem was because it was cheaper to put the band aid on rather fix the problem. The repair cost a buck. Replacing the motor mounts would cost about $50. I would assume that they were commited to a specific number of mounts by contract with the supplier. Eventully the mounts were modified with the inter-locking plates. Sometime read Delorean's " On a clear day you can see General Motors" It's a very interesting read. Chevy wasn't as progressive as one might think. And cheap also!

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#7,026 ·
I read a book on marketing back about 20 years ago, forget the name but at that time it said that Chevrolet spent more on marketing than any other brand on earth at that time.

Brian
 
#7,029 ·
As we all know that would be the 1904 Acme. It turned out it was a short lived perpetual guarantee.
They went out of business in 1911. Their lack of sucess in the automobile business was turned around later on when the motion picture was developed by Thomas Edison.

They started a business supplying props to Warner Bros.


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