Thread: Saturday Trivia Questions

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1. What was the space in front of the radiator on a '57 Chevy sometimes used for?

2. Who sold the most cars in '57, Chevy or Ford? In 1958? In 1959?

3. What is a "necker's knob"?

4. What was the rumor regarding a '47 Chevy?

5. Why did people cut the seat cushion on a '55-'57 Chevy?

6. If your girlfriend said your vibrator was going bad, what part of your car did you fix?

7. What was the door striker on a Chevy commonly used for?

8. Who was "mad-man Muntz"?

9. What was a cigarette cellophane wrapper sometimes used for in lieu of the proper tool?

10. Before we had Armor All, what did we wipe on our dashboard?

This looks like fun!

1. On my '57 I kept a jug of water....but I suppose you could say Moon tank, smuggling friends into the drive in, or whatever you wanted to have handy.

2. Ford outsold Chevy for the last time. '58 & '59 Chevy ruled. Lee Iacocca said the '57 Ford was a lemon, and if you hit a bump the doors would pop open!

3. That was a steering wheel spinner, so you could drive with one hand, and put your arm around your girl.

4. I never heard that one. Maybe something regarding WW2?

5. I never did. Maybe to hide cigarettes???

6. no clue.

7. same as above.

8. My best guess is the guy who made the Muntz cars.

9. to wrap a bad fuse long enough to get you home...or start a fire!

10. I can't rmember for sure, but it seems it was vegetable oil.

I know...I know. I got an "F".

6 Could it have something to do with that necker knob thingie?
Actually it was part of the pre-transistor radio.

7 I don't know about your reference, but we used them for bottle openers.

8 Earl "Mad man" Muntz. Former used car dealer (that will explain a lot), who was a promoter, wheeler dealer, some would say con-man, though in today's parlance he was an entrepreneur. Helped lauch the home television "revolution", as well as other appliances, rebranded and sold the Kurtis car as a Muntz Jet.

10 was Pledge.

Don

5. To make room for the shifter handle when you converted to a 4-speed box from a 'Vette.

WOW, you guys are old but still have your memory.....still a few left to answer.....

Bob is correct on the door latch plate....opened beer and pop bottles.

Don is correct on Pledge

Tech is correct about cutting the seat to make room for the shifter handle

HotRodPaint is correct on neckers knob.

The vibrator was in a tube radio. It was a bimetallic contact that "chopped" the DC current and (just like thru the ignition coil) made the field rise and fall in the transformer.....making a simulated AC out of DC. When the vibrator started to go bad, it put a real buzz on the radio....sometimes it only buzzed when the thing was warming up.

Any other guesses?

Bob is right on Earl Muntz except that he also introduced the 4 track stereo to the auto accessory industry. Look up Earl on wikipedia...he was an interesting guy. He was the first person to measure a TV screen on the diagional instead of width....he made TVs in the early 1950's


mike

More trivia:

11. When you bought a new car, you used to get an advertisement in the mail from Fingerhut. What were they selling?

12. What color was the premium grade of Sonoco gasoline?

13. When air conditioning first came out, how could you tell that the car had A/C if you were looking at it from the outside? (other than the windows were rolled up)

14. Corvairs and VWs were both air cooled. Why did Corvair engines leak more than VW engines?

15. What brand of gas advertised "put a tiger in your tank"?

16. What was Donald Duck's license number?

12. 260 was blue! Saturday nights meant a new set of plugs, a valve adjust, and a tank of 260. :-)~

13. I think some cars had scoops at the rear of the greenhouse, since part of the air was behind the passenger compartment.

15. Exxon which used to be Esso.

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder

11. Plastic seat covers

11. all sorts of crap!
12. Pink to orange
13.water leaking under the car/ lack of pop out vents.
14.Because they had funky ventalatio pathways and got hotter, so the heads warped
15.Seneco
16. Quacked
I'll have you know, at least I knew the neckers knob!

As to the 1947 Chevy rumor it was Old navy was planning to crush 1500 of them as they pulled them from their retair stores...article here.
http://www.usfreeads.com/1120615-cls.html

#6 - part of the radio?

oops, didn't see Bob's answer.

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