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
That's a big Benz. It is longer in length and wheelbase than the '58 Continental. The one pictured also happens to be a "Pope-mobile." The Pope also had a 1965 Lincoln Limo, which was slightly larger than the M-B 600 Pullman, and also a unibody.
This is the version that was available to the public through Lincoln dealers.
The mercedes 600 was a production car,although they only built 2500 of them in all forms. The Popes car ( one of several the vatican have) looks short because of it's bigger windows.Not the sort of thing dignitaries are encouraged to ride in these days...
OK,I'll volenteer a question.
We all have a garage, a place at home to park the car,park the mother in law ,keep extra Stuff,have sales from ,hide from the spouse etc etc . But who actually invented the home garage?
I was wondering about the size more than anything,but lincolns have been unibody since 1938 ( or 39) . mercedes haven't built a car with a chassis since the 3-0-0 of the 1950's and the W170 ,which was a prewar design anyway.
Well, for the sake of argument, that all depends on what your definition of the term 'production car' is.
I hear you saying, "that is obviously a conversion done by an outside company; that thing didn't roll off the assembly line like that."
Which is absolutely true. But it is also true of most GM and Chrysler convertibles built in the last 30 years or so. These convertibles started life as coupes, and were sent to an outside contractor to be converted into convertibles. Do you consider them production vehicles?
Sorry, sometimes I can't resist a friendly argument
We all have a garage, a place at home to park the car,park the mother in law ,keep extra Stuff,have sales from ,hide from the spouse etc etc . But who actually invented the home garage?
nope not sears,or JC whitney ... but a hint,The company bearing the inventors name ceased being an entity recently after 100 years of being used as a trademark.
The 600 landau aka popemobile was built by mercedes,they did all their own work,no outside contractors were involved since before WW2. There was only one right hand drive landau built,I had the oppurtunity to look close at it a couple of months ago. A seriously BIG car,and it has always been privately owned unlike most of the others which were owned by governments and despots of various sorts.
I'd Like to change my answer, the first automobile garage in the world was built for Dr. Carl Benz (inventor of the automobile 1886), in Ladenburg, Germany.
SORRY GUYS,I've been under car all day. It was Ransom Ely Olds! He built the first home garage and even named it as such.
Scrimshaw ,you nailed it!. I have a large collection of car books and that little gem was in one of those small books Floyd Clymer published in the early 50's.
They cover everything concerning Americas early motoring days. And i suspect mr Clymer may have known Olds personally . Floyd Clymer was alos the youngest ever car dealer in the USA,at 12 years old he was dealing new cars!. The world needs a few more like him think to get us out of the toilet.
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