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
Wait a minute, you said back in the sixties! The Vega didn't exist until 1970! I just remembered some odd photos of the shipping of the Vega. I didn't remember anything about hanging from bumpers but the shipping was wild, that I knew.
Ah Haw!! You got the trick question! You probably thought that I didn't remember that the Vega was a child of the seventies! Well there! I'll let it go this time! But done let it happen again!
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The metalurgy. Aluminum block sans liner, relying on a silica metalurgy to "prevent wear". It worked about as well as may be imagined.
Coupled with a tendency to warp and destroy head gaskets whenever it got hot and viola! An engine that was guaranteed to self-destruct before you even got it home, thus diverting people's attention from the fact that the bodies were rusted nearly all the way through about the time that the so-called cars reached final assembly stage in the factory.
Just another example of GM hiring the best and brightest minds to develop the most efficient way to deliberately destroy any customer goodwill and ensure that they could go bankrupt while Toyota, Mazda and Renault/Nissan would take over the entire market!
Actually - at the very next board meeting, they had a wager to see who could top the Vega for making people buy some other brand. They still could not believe that ANYONE would buy a GM product after the Vega, but since it seemed that that the buying public was still dumb enough to get yet another GM, they got started on yet another way to make people buy Toyotas etc. They called it "Citation" and also spun it off into Cadillac, Olds, Buick & Pontiac Divisions, too!
A competing bet resulted in a statement from the top office to the effect that "I can top that for driving customers away! Just watch! We pledge that ALL cars will be Front-wheel drive"!
(The response from a couple of board members was "Cars? Is that what we make? I always wondered")
Right you are! I forgot about the "total loss" oil system they used!
Oh - by the way, I will not be able to pose a new Q because I won't be able to monitor replies.
I am in the middle of a total basement clean-out in prep for new furnace and air cond and etc to be installed next week.
EVERYTHING has to go to make room for install ductwork, run gas lines etc.
This house was built 20 years ago in an era of "all-electric heating", so it has electric baseboard heat - which means it has never had a furnace, so it has no ductwork etc. For a 3500 sq ft, 5-level split you can just imagine the amount of renos that will be happening to accomodate the furnace and the 3-ton heatpump, electric air filters and other gizmos and doo-dads needed to reduce my winter heat bills down from the 500-600 bux a month they have been running at. This week is clean-out and renos, and the next week after that is more renos and re-dos of basement ceilings, new cupboards and shelves down there, etc.
Ford went to 12v in 56 - mopar in55 (Desoto ) an gm 1954 Olds and Cadalliac .Chevrolet in 55 , ford mustand had an alternator in 65 ,-Chevrolet in 63 exept corvair it switched in 65 -- chysler in I think 60 on the ramchargers .
European cars had alternators in late 1800s and early 1900s ,but I know that is not what you are asking.
Chrysler is known for the Hemi but they purchased the design from another company , what AMERICAN company had the first mass produced Hemi.--
and what year..
The first mass produced American automobile powered by a 2 cyl Hemi engine was the Welch Motor Car . First built in 1903 by the Chelsea Mfg. Co. The engine was designed and built by A.R. Welsh and his brothers. In 1909 The Welsh was bought by GM who produced the Welch-Detroit. In 1906 Welsh produced a four cyl Hemi and in 1909 they built a six cyl Hemi engine.
The Welsh was a " massed produced vehicle as much as any other "massed produced vehicle of it's time. Not as big as Ford or Chevy but a viable auto company as any.
Below is the first "true " Chrysler Hemi but it was developed in conjunction with Continental Engines. makes you wonder if Chrysler ever did build there own engine. Hmmmm?
Ok lets go into the bottom drawer of my tool box After rumaging around I found this.
What is it and what do you use it for?
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(And no, it has nothing to do with hemroids!)[/QUOTE
I'm glad I am not the only person to have one of those BB. It is a sky hook, very handy when you need to pull an engine in the middle of nowhere. Or it may be a keychain.........or a broken fender stretcher.....:thumbup:
In 1957 American manufacturers standardized on 12 V and Negative Ground. The aftermarket could not function with some cars being 12V, some 6V, some negative ground and some were positive ground.
Autocar ,Freightliner and some Mack trucks were probably some of the last positive ground vehicles, into mid 90s
I recently purchased Classic ints gauges for my truck the tach runs in 12 v the gas guage water tenp and speedometer are electric with senders they have voltage reducers built in to 8 v ,I learned the hard way Tom Tom GPS works on 8 v also ,I cut the plug off of my 1st one lol ,and wired it in to the overhead console so it would be near eye level ,That didn't work to good ,the next one I plugged in 12v outlet the factory cord has reducer built in also.
Isn't that the well-known "thing-a-ma-jig" that you use to install the whatchamacallit on your 24 stud "fathead" Ford (the one with the Mercury crank for extra inches)?
No you're probably confusing it with the "what-zit" used to adjust the "frammus" on the old Dodge "Fireball 200". You only did that when you were fine tuning the engine for "skim".
Ok one last hint The part that this tool was used with was done away when the engine computer came on the scene. As a matter of fact the unit that used the part that this tool was created for isn't used either!
Aha!!! It's the doojigger-thingie adjuster!
Didn't want to jump in before everyone else had a chance, but since you have given away the answer like that....
Are you Guys gonna sit there and tell me that you don't check the breaker plate spring tension in your distributer on a regular basis? You must have used this spring tension gauge when you were setting up the advance curve on your distributer! I check mine weekly!! ( I have no life )
What do you have in your tool boxes? A claw hammer, a set of water pumps and a broken screwdriver? Gheesh!
That's my ugly stick im holding But I made a miswhack and hit myself in the head with it <HMMM.
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