[BITList] ULTIMATE OLD CAR HISTORY

Sat Jan 2 00:41:39 GMT 2016

A few interesting facts
frank

*Q: What was the first official White House car?*

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*A: A 1909 White Steamer, ordered by President Taft.*

*Q: Who opened the first drive-in gas station?*
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*A: Gulf opened up the first station in Pittsburgh in 1913.*

*Q: What city was the first to use parking meters?*

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*A: Oklahoma City , on July 16, 1935.*

*Q: Where was the first drive-in restaurant?*
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*A: Royce Hailey's Pig Stand opened in Dallas in 1921.*

*Q: True or False?  The 1953 Corvette came in white,*

*red and black.*
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*A: False.  The 1953 'Vett's were available in one colour, Polo White.*

*Q: What was Ford's answer to the Chevy Corvette, and other legal street 
racers of the 1960's?*
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*A: Carroll Shelby's Mustang GT350.*

*Q: What was the first car fitted with an alternator, rather than a 
direct current dynamo?*
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*A: The 1960 Plymouth Valiant*

*Q: What was the first car fitted with a replaceable cartridge oil filter?*
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*A: The 1924 Chrysler.*

*Q: What was the first car to be offered with a "perpetual guarantee"?*
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*A: The 1904 Acme, from Reading , PA. Perpetuity**was disturbing in this 
case, as Acme closed down in 1911.*

*Q: What American luxury automaker began**by making cages for birds and 
squirrels?*
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*A: The George N. Pierce Co. of Buffalo, who made**the Pierce Arrow, 
also made iceboxes.*

*Q: What car first referred to itself as a convertible?*
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*A: The 1904 Thomas Flyer, which had a removable hard top.*

*Q: What car was the first to have it's radio**antenna embedded in the 
windshield?*
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*A: The 1969 Pontiac Grand Prix.*

*Q: What car used the first successful series-production hydraulic valve 
lifters?*
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*A: The 1930 Cadillac 452, the first production V16*

*Q: Where was the World's first three-colour traffic lights installed ?*
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*A: Detroit , Michigan in 1919. Two years later they experimented with 
synchronized lights.*

*Q: What type of car had the distinction of being GM's 100 millionth car 
built in the U.S. ?*
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*A: March 16, 1966 saw an Olds Toronado roll**out of Lansing , Michigan 
with that honor.*

*Q: Where was the first drive-in movie theater opened , and when?*
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*A: Camden, NJ in 1933*

*Q: What autos were the first to use a standardized production key-start 
system?*
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*A: The 1949 Chryslers*

*Q: What did the Olds designation 4-4-2 stand for?*
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*A: 4 barrel carburettor, 4 speed transmission, and dual exhaust.*

*Q: What car was the first to place the**horn button in the centre of 
the steering wheel?*
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*A: The 1915 Scripps-Booth Model C. The car also was the first with 
electric door latches.*

*Q: What U.S. production car has the quickest 0-60 mph time?*
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*A: The 1962 Chevrolet Impala SS 409. Did it in 4.0 seconds.*

*Q: What's the only car to appear simultaneously on the covers of Time 
and Newsweek?*
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*A: The Mustang*

*Q: What was the lowest priced mass produc ed American car?*
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*A: The 1925 Ford Model T Runabout. Cost $260, $5 less than 1924.*

*Q: What is the fastest internal-combustion American production car?*
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*A: The 1998 Dodge Viper GETS-R, tested by**Motor Trend magazine at 
192.6 mph.*

*Q: What automaker's first logo incorporated the Star of David?*
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*A: The Dodge Brothers.*

*Q: Who wrote to Henry Ford, "I have drove fords exclusively when I 
could get away with one It has got every other car skinned, and even if 
my business hasn't been strictly legal it don't  hurt anything to tell 
you what a fine car you got in the V-8"?*
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*A: Clyde Barrow (of Bonnie and Clyde ) in 1934.*

*Q: What car was the first production V12, as well as the first 
production car with aluminum pistons?*
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*A: The 1915 Packard Twin-Six. Used during WWI in Italy,**these motors 
inspired Enzi Ferrari to adopt the V12 himself in 1948.*

*Q: What was the first car to use power operated seats?*
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*A: They were first us ed on the 1947 Packard line.*

*Q: Which of the Chrysler "letter cars" sold the fewest amount?*
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*A: Only 400,1963, 300J's were sold*
*(they skipped "I" because it looked like a number 1)*

*Q: What car company was originally **known as Swallow Sidecars (aka SS)?*
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*A: Jaguar, which was an SS model first in 1935, and ultimately the 
whole company by 1945.*

*Q: What car delivered the first production V12 engine?*
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*A: The cylinder wars were kicked off in 1915 after Packard's chief 
engineer, Col. Jesse Vincent, introduced its Twin-Six.*

*Q: When were seat belts first fitted to a motor vehicle?*
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*A: In 1902, in a Baker Electric streamliner racer which**crashed at 100 
mph. on Staten Island !*

*Q: In January 1930, Cadillac debuted it's V16 in a car named**for a 
theatrical version of a 1920's film seen by Harley Earl**while designing 
the body, What's that name?*
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*A: The "Madam X", a custom coach designed by Earl**and built by 
Fleetwood. The sedan featured a**retractable landau top above the rear 
seat.*

*Q: Which car company started out German, yet became French after WWI?*
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*A: Bugatti, founded in Molsheim in 1909, became French when Alsace 
returned to French rule.*

*Q: In what model year did Cadillac**introduce the first electric sunroof?*
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*A: 1969*

*Q: What U.S. production car had the largest 4 cylinder engine?*
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*A: The 1907 Thomas sported a 571 cu. in. (9.2liter) engine.*

*Q: What car was reportedly designed on the back of a Northwest Airlines 
airsickness bag and released on April Fool's Day, 1970?*
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*A: 1970 Gremlin, (AMC)*

*Q: What is the Spirit of Ecstasy?*
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*A: The official name of the mascot of Rolls Royce, she is the lady on 
top of their radiators.*

*Q: What was the inspiration for MG's famed octagon-shaped badge?*
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*A: The shape of founder Cecil Kimber's dining table. MG stands for 
Morris Garages.*

*Q: In what year did the "double-R" Rolls Royce badge change from red to 
black?*
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*A: 1933*

*Trivia...Ford, who made the first pick-up trucks, *

*shipped them to dealers in crates that the new owners had to assemble 
using the crates as the beds of the trucks.**The new owners had to go to 
the dealers to get them, thus they had to "pick-up" the trucks.*

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