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#1 ·
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.

See this thread for an example of how it goes: http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/forum/off-topic-discussion/trivia/1454/page1/

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
 
#11,405 ·
Damn BB you got it! It KILLS me to think I had one of these bodies from a flathead powered lake car in my shop up on display and sold it for next to nothing, grrrrrr.

It's your floor BB!

Brian

 
#11,425 ·
Yep that's "Speedy" Bill Smith of Speedway Motors fame. The other gentleman is none of the aforementioned.
I'll stick to my statement that the race car I'm thinking about that the mystery man built is still one of the most famous ever built. You will know why when you figure out who our mystery man is.

Last clue: This guy made a fortune with goo.

BB :thumbup::thumbup:
 
#11,432 ·
See, I said it was arbitrary to call his car the most famous.

In the drag racing world, Don Garlits's Swamp Rat XIV is arguably the most famous top fuel car, as he successfully pioneered the rear engine slingshot dragster with it after a transmission explosion that cut his last front engined car and part of his right foot in half.

And then there is Art Arfons, a pioneer of the successful series of "Green Monster" jet powered land speed record cars as well as the innovator of a wing on them to prevent the cars from going airborne over 330 mph.

I remember Andy Granitelli's name associated with Indy cars many years ago and some automotive products but, obviously, I didn't know of or remember anything about a turbine powered Indy car..:p
 
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