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
Bubba got it! The 1907 Sternberg Was the first true COE Truck. In order to be a COE the vehicle has to have a cab and a cab has to have a roof. A number of vehicles with the engine under the seat predate the Sternberg but no roof. You have to remember that Air Conditioning hadn't been invented yet and those earlier ones were hot.
1899 - Ardmore, Pennsylvania
Autocar was at the heart of an industrial revolution when it built the first motor truck commercially available in the United States in 1899. The Autocar delivery wagon boasted a payload capacity of 700 pounds and optional 5 or 8 horsepower motors. The “engine-under-the-seat” design maximized area for freight and was the precursor of Autocar’s Cab-Over-Engine design used on every Autocar today.
The first Autocar truck was also “purpose-built,” in this case, to carry and deliver packages. Its design was declared to be so simple to use that any driver “can operate it with more safety than he could drive a horse”.
America’s First Truck: Ancestor to all modern trucks and the beginning of Autocar’s legendary dedication to purpose-built vehicles.
While rummaging around in your attic you came across your long lost Hopalong Cassidy Gun Belt complete with authentic Official Hopalong Cassidy Six-Shooters (and a role of Armstrong Red Caps) and Official Hopalong Cassidy Cowboy Hat. Apparently the hat no longer fits hence your home made hat-stretcher.
OR a very cruel joke on the Janitor who works at the Acme Driving School for the Blind.
You got it BB, a hat stretcher. I bought this World Series hat at the first game 2010 and it was made in China. My American made hat the same size works perfect, but apparently the hat size doesn't mean anything in China.
1. It's an accessory for first time parachute jumpers.
2. It sends a jolt of electricity to idiots who think it's a good idea to jump out of a perfectly good airplane to remind them that it's not such a good thing to do.
3. I don't know. Do I look that dumb?
Why give a three part wrong answer when one part wrong will do? I guess that it's a first generation Cougar sequential tail light controller or an aftermarket one for Mustangs.
Well you got two out of three. This unit is from a Thunderbird.
BUT HOW DO IT WORK?
BB
( I was working for a Ford dealership when these first appeared. The question from all the mechanics was, "WHAT THE H E DOUBLE HOCKEY STICKS IS THAT???)
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