Thread: Saturday Trivia Questions

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15...In Michigan it was ENCO... I wonder hom many names that company had

OK, some answers,

1. in front of the radiator had a nice location for ice and beer...even had a drain hole

2. In 57 Ford outsold Chevy so Jay got it. IN 1959, Chevy sold 1,500,000 cars and beat Ford by about 90,000 units.

4. Rumor had it that the 47 Chevy fastback had the rear end lift at speed. Supposedly hurt sales.

9. Cigarette cellophane was used to roughly set the timing by putting the cellophane between the points and rotating the distributor until the points opened....you eyeballed the location of the rotor to the cap.

11. Dave got it right...Fingerhut sent a little sample of seat cover material...clear stuff that protected your seats and was hotter than blazes to sit on.

12. Jay hit this one...Sonoco was blue...just like Mark Donahue's Camaro Trans Am car that Sonoco sponsored.

13. Jay also got this one...there were two clear tubes on the package tray that ducted the cold air forward (at the back of your head) since the a/c equipment was in the trunk.

14. Corvairs leaked because they tried elastomeric sealing that got hard with the heat...VW used more mechanical sealing methods. Today, rubber compounds are much better and a Corvair probably doesnt leak as much with new seals.

15. ENCO and ESSO....Don got it as did Daffy....I think ENCO was Northern name and ESSO was Southern...but not sure.

16. Anybody??? Didnt anyone read Donald Duck comic books?????? I had an orange crate filled with them!!! (if anyone remembers orange crates)

mike in tucson

16. Donald's license plate was 313, his birthday.

ENCO? ESSO? So why did they change the name from ESSO to EXXON?? Anyone? I know, but how many others?

WOW, Stovens got it.....in 1972, I met an old gold miner in Colorado who, after talking to me for a while, said "I have one question for you. What is Donald Duck's license number?" I got it right and we became friends and I got to help him work his claims. Donald's license number was on the front of his car in some of the cartoons.

Mike in Tucson

Can we add some trivia questions to this thread? I'll post these "on behalf of Robot". :-)

1. What was another name for a continental kit?

2. What "grotesque" object hung from rear view mirrors in the fifties? What other objects were popular?

3. What were "Appletons"?

4. What was the original source of the blower popular on rods and dragsters?

5. What were "popups"?

6. What was a "rockcrusher"?

7. What was the nickname for the smallblock Chevy? ....and for the late model Chrysler Hemi? ....and why did the Hemi have that name?

8. What were "Smittys"?

9. What did the "little old lady from Pasedena" drive?

10. What was the inspiration for auto styling in the late fifties and early sixties?

2. Yer girlfriends garter belt---fuzzy dice was and still is my personal favorite...some had the tassle from thier hat at graduation...

6. Them old worthless Muncie 4 speeds, the M-22 with those noisy gears

8. Glasspacks

9. Brand new shiny red Super Stock Dodge

10. Jet airplanes

Was your girlfriend's garter belt the "grotesque" object? :-)~ I also did the dice and tassle.

Originally Posted by HOTRODPAINT

Was your girlfriend's garter belt the "grotesque" object? :-)~ I also did the dice and tassle.

You didn't know my girlfriend!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

4. What was the original source of the blower popular on rods and dragsters?

A GMC bus

5. What were "popups"?

Domed pistons

7. What was the nickname for the smallblock Chevy? ....and for the late model Chrysler Hemi? ....and why did the Hemi have that name?
SBC = Mouse motor
Hemi = Elephant motor
Hemi was named after the shape of the Hemishere shaped combustion chambers in the heads


Mike

Originally Posted by Dave Severson

2. Yer girlfriends garter belt---fuzzy dice was and still is my personal favorite...some had the tassle from thier hat at graduation...

6. Them old worthless Muncie 4 speeds, the M-22 with those noisy gears

8. Glasspacks

9. Brand new shiny red Super Stock Dodge

10. Jet airplanes

All four are what I was looking for!

Originally Posted by Mike52

4. What was the original source of the blower popular on rods and dragsters?

A GMC bus

5. What were "popups"?

Domed pistons

7. What was the nickname for the smallblock Chevy? ....and for the late model Chrysler Hemi? ....and why did the Hemi have that name?
SBC = Mouse motor
Hemi = Elephant motor
Hemi was named after the shape of the Hemishere shaped combustion chambers in the heads


Mike

4. Yes. Specifically, it hung on the side of a 6 cylinder diesel engine.

5. Yep!

6. That's the story!

1. Was sometimes referred to as a "Bustle"

2. I think your looking for a Shrunken Head

3. Appletons were teardrop shaped spotlights found on many custom cars

Mick

Originally Posted by lurker mick

1. Was sometimes referred to as a "Bustle"

2. I think your looking for a Shrunken Head

3. Appletons were teardrop shaped spotlights found on many custom cars

Mick

I thought there would be several answers for 1. The best name I ever I heard it called was a "toilet seat"!

2 & 3 are the answers I was thinking of.

That didn't ake long. I thought many people would know these answers.

Smitteys are for sale again in summit. Maybe I ought to put some on the Rora . And correct me if im wrong, but diddnt the first blowers get used on prop airplanes for higher altitudes? and then the bus, then the car? Soemone please correct me on this one.