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
I should have my head examined for such a guess but damn that dash looks a lot like a Nash! So how about Nash, Hudson or AMC I say all because in 57 Hudson and Nash merged to form AMC.
very good John ,I had forgotten about the Tempest.
I was thinking Miata as they are a real close copy of the Corvette
Miata would be good for a T bucket or something ,as 4 bolts removed entire unit sets out with a cradle didn't the tempest have a flexible drive shaft ??
You are the Man! Just so anyone that is following knows why. GM built the first full oil pressure 235's in 1953 but only installed them in the PowerGlide cars so they had 60 lb oil pressure gauges. In '54 all the cars got the "new" engine with full oil pressure.
Chevy referred in it's advertising about it's 6's being "Blue Flame" engine rather than "Yellow Flame" engine (better combustion) as early as 1934. The engine officially named "The Blue Flame" was the 1953 engine with hydraulic lifters. Chevy also mane a solid lifter engine in 53 also. It was not titled "The Blue Flame" engine. The "Blue Flame" was available in the early production Chevy's. The release date of the Corvette was in mid run for Chevy so it wasn't the first application for the "Blue Flame" 6 cyl.
The 8th paragraph starting with the word 1950 says the Blue Flame six was intrudeced in 1950 and 300,000 were produced if I am not reading it wrong, they could have made them before that but I never heard of them
I thought they were designed for the new flagship Belair
but the paragraph above says they were made in 1934 so I was or am reading it wrong,
you are correct with 1934
I just did a little more research and no your not reading it wrong but although Chevy referred to it's 6 cylinder engines as "Blue Flame " engines as early as 1934, 1953 was the first year they actually put the name on the engine valve cover. All of their previous sixes were"Blue Flame" engines including their "Thrift Master" engine but the Hydraulic 235 version was the first to be actually labeled "Blue Flame"
the 1934 Chevy Blue flame Six had 206 cu in and mad additional 15 hp
The a 235 cu in blue flame, was , reintroduced in 1950 as the article stated
so I was wrong with the 1950 ,the question being what year produced
you didn't ask for engine size .
ask another John as you gave up the answer.
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