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
There was a TV special about that car - aired a month or so ago
Featured the owner showing how well it drives, what its performance is like, what it took to restore, the history of the car and the history of his particular car.
So I'll pass on answering it right now - I'd feel like I was cheating.
Did you know that the company that made your Mystery automobile also made farm implements? I have a walk behind garden tractor ride-on-roller with a brass plate on the side of the drum with the same name as the motor company.
I didn't know that...and I'm as into old tractors as I am into old cars and trucks. I did some googling and found all kinds of neat info about Graham-Bradley, Frazier, and Graham-Paige tractors and Rototillers. Cool stuff. :thumbup:
Did you know that the company that made your Mystery automobile also made farm implements? I have a walk behind garden tractor ride-on-roller with a brass plate on the side of the drum with the same name as the motor company.
Now that would be a cool car to have! Of course I would have a hard time hotrodding it, it's just too odd to do anything with but drive it in it's oddness.
Crap, you are too cool, I wasn't expecting that so fast!
When I first got in this business it was at the height of the van movement. I was working for my sister who had a detail and body shop and did a lot of work for a local huge Dodge dealer. I did my first custom paint (one of very few I have done) on a year or so old Dodge van. I was 18, we are talking 1977. I painted the stripe that goes around it, shot cob webs and "star bursts". LOL I thought I was a real artist.
But I have to tell you about one that I found in front of my house one day, this was around 1981-82 and the van was just a year or so old. It was a Dodge and it was black. I remember pulling up to my house and I could see from a long ways away, this thing was very special. Guys, it was straight, I mean laser straight, main arena of the Grand Nationals, no car could ever make it look bad straight! It was mind blowing straight, the guy or guys who did this thing had some major passion, it was amazing!
Nope not corroded water ports.
Brian knew almost immediately that it was a leaking timing cover and I'm sure that some of the covers leaked because of impellers going through the back but that's not what caused the majority to leak. What caused them to leak?
Water cavitation and weak coolant.The area behind the water pump would just get eaten up and eventually you would end up with chocolate malt. Pontiac had the same problem for a while. That's how that plate between the pump and the timing cover came to be.
And I know that, my timing chain cover connection was just off with the propeller eating it up! Now that you say that, I have never seen the propeller do the damage, it was "eaten away" as you describe, geeez.
I forget if I have asked this before, what is this emblem off of?
Word of the day: Impeller. An impeller is a rotating component of a centrifugal pump, usually made of iron, steel, bronze, brass, aluminum or plastic, which transfers energy from the motor that drives the pump to the fluid being pumped by accelerating the fluid outwards from the center of rotation.
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