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
Well I don't want anyone to lose any sleep over this..
I'm not sure what GM calls it, but it's a wheel vent hole plug. On GM cars of this era with full wheel covers, these little plugs were installed in the slots around the wheels to keep dirt and gravel from coming through and getting trapped behind the wheel covers.
I had never seen these plugs before, but just noticed them the other day while doing a brake job on the mint unrestored '52 olds pictured in my previous post.
Brian, since you showed so much interest in this question, I yield the floor to you. :thumbup:
I have to say that in all of the years that I worked on '50s and '60s cars(as a mere tad ), I never saw those clips. Makes me wonder if they were a regional thing. (I hope that wheel you show is junk - the lug holes appear to be wallowed out)
LOL, my buddy said over and over, it looks like it's on a wheel. We just couldn't come up with it. I am not sure if I have ever seen those in my life. That is super interesting.
Here's my question, what is this and where is it mounted?
By the way, aren't unrestored cars awesome? I LOVE looking around a car that hasn't been touched. I don't care if its a 65 Corvette bigblock or a 74 Pinto. It offers an insite into the past, into a time that is gone forever.
Well if nobody else is going to venture a guess, I'll say it's a unibody vibration dampener. They're usually mounted behind a car's bumpers. I remember some talk of these on this thread about 5-6 months ago.
Otherwise, I have no idea.....Maybe it's a clever way for a foreign country to rid itself of some toxic waste - encapsulate it in cast iron, bolt it to a car chassis and send it off to unsuspecting international consumers. Ya never know.
Well if nobody else is going to venture a guess, I'll say it's a unibody vibration dampener. They're usually mounted behind a car's bumpers. I remember some talk of these on this thread about 5-6 months ago.
Otherwise, I have no idea.....Maybe it's a clever way for a foreign country to rid itself of some toxic waste - encapsulate it in cast iron, bolt it to a car chassis and send it off to unsuspecting international consumers. Ya never know.
Yep, if no one got it I was going to give the hint "Cocktail shaker" (google it with the word Camaro).
I see them all the time but this one was kinda odd in how big it was and where it was located. They are usually in the center of the bumper and many cars have them. But this thing was huge and heavy!
I call them "Placentas" because you know they were an afterbirth. You know that during testing they found some odd vibration or something and this is how they fix it.
Brian
If you'll notice I have been saving that photo for quite some time just for this thread.
I don't know the answer but I would think later than 74. I know that I had a 78 Cad Fleetwood with one.
I also have to say, that was a heck of a car. It handled better and was much faster than my 68 Camaro RS. It was actually pretty impressive what I could do with that car.
According to the Delco radio service manuals, they were not available in '74.They were in '78, but that wasn't the first year. The answer I'm looking for lies somewhere in between.
Also, after some more research, I found that I have to throw out the bonus question because there was an exception. You couldn't get one in a Chevrolet, except for the Corvette - for some reason that was listed separately in the service manuals as if Corvette was it's own division.
My dad was selling new Buicks at that time and 76 maybe, but my guess is 77.
My dad used to joke how people from a certain inner city culture would come in and say they wanted "The A and the Fm Sterio tape deck". Then when the CB was added they added it to their "Must have" list too. "The A and the Fm sterio tape deck cb radio".
My Cad had the mic with the dial on it to change the channels. I can't remember if it was the 23 channel or after they added the extra ones, what is it now, 40? Anyway, that was the "cel phone" of the day. For that matter it was better than a cel phone in many ways. You could put a number of the channel you used on your window and people could contact you on the radio that you didn't know. If you wanted to respond you could, if you didn't, you could just let them talk to themselves.
"Breaker breaker rubber ducky looks like we got ourselves a convoy"
Youngsters, if you didn't know about this CB culture in the 70's you missed out on a good time. There were hit songs on the charts talking about cb radios instead of poppin caps in someones ars. It was a good time.
"Teddy bear" by Red Sovine. The video is pretty bad so just listen at least the first time you here it. A little corny, yep, maybe a lot corny. But it was all over the radio and the charts. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JY4BV14OZzQ
It was a damn good time, polyester disco shirts and all!
I wonder if it was just a coincidence that it was also the same year that Smokey and The Bandit was released; A movie that was chock-full of GM cars and trucks - and CB radios. Next time I watch that movie, I'll be sure to watch closely to see if the cars are using Delco CB's; I'll bet they are.
Thanks Joe, ok, look at the photo and tell me two things that identify this car's year. It is a "Model 40" comprising of two years. But what lets you know it is ONE of those two years?
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