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
Not what I would call genuine production. They only produced them for racing or a limited production run of 200 for homologation, it wasn't the same engine as the 911. Your going to have to go back further!
Suprised no-one has answered this. The Jaguar XK6 engine won LeMans 5 times in in the 50's, in one race it took 5 of the first 6 places and was the first engine to average over 100 MPH for 24 hours. This is the same engine that was in all Jaguar cars from mid 40's to the mid 80's (except for the V12 cars).
Good job, Pontiac "Eight lug" wheels. Ford also experimented with these as well. If you pick up a book that shows some styling exercises at Ford in the fifties you will see a clay mockup of a Continental with these same type wheels. The reason I know this is a friend of mine bought a 58 T-Bird with a set of them on it. They were Kelsey Hayes the company that made wheels for Ford for years. I thought I hit pay dirt and did a lot of research on them. I never found that they had ever went into production as an OE or in the aftermarket, they simply didn't exist. Seeing the EXACT wheels and brakes on this prototype in the book I figured these suckers were worth a mint on Ebay. I didn't get crap for them, four or five hundred as I remember for the set.
Man, if I was into Fords I would have paid thru the nose for these things, they were COOOOOOL.
In the United States, the first license plates used on automobiles were seen in New York, in 1901. The N.Y. plates actually had no numbers - from 1901 through 1902, the plates were usually leather pads or flat metal plates, with attached letters indicating the initials of the car owner! New York didn't actually produce a state-issued license plate until 1910, when a cream on blue steel plate was made - undated, with riveted numbers. Plates in New York from 1901 through 1909 were owner-provided plates, usually referred to by plate collectors as "pre-states", because they were "pre-state issue".
I think they were also available on all the full-size. I know it was an option on the Bonneville. My 66 Bonneville has the "other" 8 lug option... as in a FF 10.5" rear and 3/4 ton front spindles I always wanted an 8-lug pontiac, but I did it a different way.
Did it have something to do with the wildcat 445 on the air cleaner? I know it confused me at first when I heard they put torque numbers instead of CID.
Yep, it had a 401, but no where in GM literature did it say that! What did it say and why? Even today if you go looking for parts at the parts store for a 1965 Buick Skylark Gran Sport it won't say it has a 401!
Brian
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