Thread: Saturday Trivia Questions

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Originally Posted by Itoldyouso

Jay is right about Sunoco 260 being blue. And if you knew the guy who owned the station they could turn the knob one more click and you got 270, which supposedly was straight concentrate. At least, that is what we did on Saturday nights at my buddies Dad's Sunoco station. But it really bumped up the price to some astronomical figure like 32 cents a gallon!!!!! Now where did I park that time machine??

Don

Late 1965. My neighbor tossed me the keys to his brand new 1966 Fairlane GT390, said "have some fun this afternoon". I headed to the Sunoco station and fueled up on 260 at the ungodly rate of 60 cents/gallon.

Originally Posted by drg84

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.

I'm pretty sure the first superchargers were fitted to automobiles, then later to aircraft. The first ones were, I believe, a centrifugal type of compressor. The question wasn't about superchargers though, it asked about blowers. When we think about blowers, we usually think of the Roots design with two counter-rotating rotors with either two or three lobes on each rotor. The correct answer is that General Motors Corporation began using the design on buses in the late 30's to blow down the two-stroke diesels on the exhaust stroke.

Interestingly, the design originated around 1860 and was concocted by two brothers, Philander and Francis Roots. Although there are many stories about the original intent of the blower, I like the one that says it was originally intended to blow fresh air down mineshafts so the miners could breathe and not suffocate. It was never intended to compress air, only to move air from one place to another.

I know they had superchargers on WW2 planes, but my question was for the source on the popular 6-71 blower.

I know they had superchargers on WW2 planes, and I think they were also used on some European race cars....maybe as early as the thirties....but my question was for the source on the popular 6-71 blower.

the 671 gmc blower came from inline 6cyl 71 cubic inch per cyl gmc later to become detroit deisel trucks hot roders and racers adapted them to gas eng in the 50s ted

As asked by HRP, I'm still staying with my answer, a GMC bus....a simple question, a simple answer.......LOL