Thread: Friday Night Trivia

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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?

1 record player in old caddys
2. The Larry lever - used predominantly to keep larry busy while you drove.
3.Woody the wood pecker
4.Good ones(chevy 350 and turbo 400's) and quick shifters.
5. Ford 9"
6.Camels
7.No idea, except chevy had some good stuff back then.
8.1963?
9. They were used on the California Special Mustangs or they broke easily.
10. no idea

WOW, some real old timers out there!!!

Dwayne and Jay got quite a few of them:

Lurker Mick got the toughest one....on the blower drive.

4. B&M started with the beefed GM Hydramatic that they called Hydrostick

5. The Olds/Pontiac rear end was used way before the 9 inch Ford got popular

7. Chevys had the little window in the cap that let you adjust the point gap (dwell) without removing the cap. HEI did not get introduced until about 1974 (could be off a year)

8. QuadraJet introduced on the big block Chev and the OHC Pontiac six cyl

10. The lightweight cars had a seat belt strap with a snap to hold the window up. It had two positions, up or down.

Anyone on LL? Tech should know this one....from his drag racing experience.

mike in tucson

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

1. Chattanooga, Tennessee
2. 260 V8
6. Granatelli Bros.
8. Glass bottles

BINGO, 4 for 4

By the way, the glass bottles that oil was sold in was
reuseable, the bottle had a metal spout shaped like
a funnel.

But you didnt answer the other 5!!!

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

Anyone on LL? Tech should know this one....from his drag racing experience.

mike in tucson

I thought Skids answered that one with Line Lock in message #4

#4, we used an allen wrench or a drill bit
#9, They changed from leaded gas to unleaded gas????

NTFDAY already answered #1, but I grew up in Chattanooga,TN and spent a lot of time hanging out at Honest Charleys. Read this funny post about Honest Charley that I put in another thread, it's message #4.

Mike

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

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.

I have 3+ complete sets of "3 flares & and a mount", of the canister type that use to mount on the side of pickups & trucks. 1 set came on my '37 chevy pickup & 1 came one my '47 KB2 International, I bought the rest.

Pat