Thread: Friday Night Trivia

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4. A round metal rod that fit through a hole in the levers in neutral position.

5. Warshawsky & Co.

7. black pitch pots, whick looked like a cannonball with a little flaming tower on top.

Mike,

Line Loc was a Hurst item. B&M did the beef job on the GM four speed hydramatic...a monster heavy transmission.

You essentially got question 4 about the Hurst alignment...Hurst gave you an "L" shaped tool that was made from round material and fit into the notch in the shifter body. Everyone lost it so they used a screwdriver, hex key, or drill bit. I still have my Hurst tool but I never could find it to align the shifter!

Your #9 answer is not right...unleaded came in about 1973. Something else happened that changed gas pumps in about 1980 or so.

WOW, Jay got 4, 5 and 7. Some people called the road flares by the name of "smudge pots". The flares were really hard to see at night because their flame was so small. They also caused grass fires. You never see them anymore...antique stores just don't stock the greasy stuff.

Warshawsky was the guy who founded J.C. Whitney. They published the same catalog with the Warshawsky name and the Whitney name. Their building occupied an entire city block in Chicago (may still). If you bought some amount from them, you received about a million catalogs a year or so it seemed.

3 and 9 are still unanswered

Originally Posted by robot

REAL TRIVIA, PART 2

1. Where was Honest Charlie's speed shop located (town and state)

2. The first Mustangs had what size V8 motor?

3. The Falcon Ranchero pickups had what emblem on the tail gate that is simiiar to the emblem of a major University?

4. Your new Hurst Competition Plus linkage used this for alignment...and you usuall lost yours. What did it look like?

5. JC Whitney also published a catalog under another name, what was it?

6. Who owned the STP corporation and made it famous?

7. Road construction uses the orange blinkers now...what did they use in the 1950's that are rare to even find today?

8. Oil now comes in plastic bottles. Before that, there were the cardboard cans. How was oil sold before WWII?

9. What is the difference between pre 1980 gas pumps and post 1980 gas pumps?

mike in tucson

2. 260 v8, 200 straight six
6. 7/11?
7. Yellow
8. metal cans and drums
9. gas collector /fume returns on the nossles

Stovens,

yes on #2, the 260 V8

wong on all the others.....
someone already got 6, 7, and 8 correct.

3 and 9 still open...three is easy, 9
takes some thinking....what does a gas pump
do or show?

Originally Posted by robot

Easy ones if you are old:

1. The 4 and 8 track under dash tape players replaced what other under dash music device?
2. In drag racing, what device did LL refer to?
3. What grille emblem/symbol was on the "little deuce coupe" on the Beach Boys album cover?
4. B&M Automotive got famous for building what kind of transmissions?
5. If you had a hot Chevy in the early '60s, what rear axle would you put in it for added strength?
6. Double hump heads were also called what"
7. Why was a 1969 Chevy easier to set the point gap than was a 1969 Ford?
8. When was the QuadraJet carburetor introduced?
9. What was unique about the tail lights on the early Cougars?
10. Why did the lightweight Dodges in 1965 have only up and down window positions?

Robot, I'm not talking about your question #4, I'm talking about Skids answer in Message #4,

2. a line lock

... I guess thats all I got except a couple Matt beat me too..

-Chris

3. steer head


2. is 260 V8 motor, but the early cars were offered with 170 6's and not 200's

I don't know the LL, but I'll add a bonus question.....
Honest Charley's wife was ______ ________.

About 1980,pumps had to be changed to show the price at over a buck a gallon.

Originally Posted by techinspector1

I don't know the LL, but I'll add a bonus question.....
Honest Charley's wife was ______ ________.

Barbara Card

Correction, I believe Barbara was Charley's daughter. Grace was his wife's name

Close enough. Honest Gracie.

A friend and I built a street Fiat coupe in '66-'68. We bought a lot of stuff from Honest Charley for that car! Good times. :-)

#3- Texas Longhorns
#9-isn't that when they added the 9/10 to every price? (guessing)

#9 more digits for over a buck a gallon and around the time they went digital instead of the mechanical odometer like display.... pump handle hung at side now it hangs in front? .... the 9/10 has been around almost forever and used to be the tax on a gallon of gas

Longhorn emblem on back of Falcon Ranchero

IN about 1980, gas went over 1.00 a gallon but pumps could only price up thru .99 per gallon. Remember that, for the interim, they set the pump at half price and then doubled the total line.... then, laws were passed saying that pumps MUST read full price. This obseleted a lot of pumps overnight.