FOR CAR BUFFS

  Q: Who opened the first drive-in gas station?

 

       A: Gulf opened up the first station in Pittsburgh in 1913.
        Q: What city was the first to use parking meters?

 

       A: Oklahoma City, on July 16, 1935.
        Q: Where was the first  drive-in restaurant?      
        A: Royce Hailey's Pig Stand opened in  Dallas in 1921.
        Q: True or False? 
The 1953 Corvette came in white, red and  black.

 

       A: False.
The 1953 'Vetted' were available in one color, Polo White.
        Q: What was Ford's  answer to the Chevy Corvette and other legal street racers of the 1960s?

 

       A: Carroll Shelby's Mustang  GT350.
        Q: What was the first car fitted with an alternator rather than a direct current  dynamo?

 

       A: The 1960 Plymouth Valiant

      

        Q: What car was first referred to as a convertible?

 

       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 windshield?

 

       A: The 1969 Pontiac Grand  Prix.
        Q: What car used the first successful series-production hydraulic valve lifters?

 

       A: The 1930 Cadillac 452, first production V16
        Q: Where was the World's first three-color traffic lights installed?

 

       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.

 

       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?

 

       A: Camden, NJ in 1933
        Q: What autos were the first to use a standardized production key start system?

 

       A: The 1949 Chryslers
        Q: What did the Olds designation 4-4-2 stand for

 

       A: 4 barrel carburetor, 4 speed transmission and dual exhaust.
        Q: What car was the first to place the horn button in the center of the steering wheel?

 

        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?

 

       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?

 

       A: The Mustang
        Q: What was the lowest  priced mass produced American car?

 

       A: The 1925 Ford Model T Runabout. Cost $260, $5 less than 1924.
        Q: What is the fastest internal combustion American production car?

 

       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?

 

       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"?

 

       A: Clyde Barrow (of Bonnie and Clyde) in 1934.

   

        Q: What was the first car to use power operated seats?

 

       A: They were first used on the 1947 Packard line.
        Q: Which of the Chrysler "letter cars" sold the fewest?

 

       A: Only 400, 1963, 300J's were sold (they  skipped" "I" because it
looked like a number 1)

     

        Q: What car delivered the first production V12 engine?

 

       A: The cylinder wars were kicked off in 1915 after Packard's chief
engineer, Col. Jesse Vincent, introduced its Twin-Sis.
        Q: When were seat belts first fitted to a motor vehicle?

 

       A: In 1902, in a Baker Electric streamliner racer which crashed at 100 mph on Staten Island 

 

        Q: Which car company started out German yet became
French after WWI?

 

       A: Bugati, 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?

 

       A: 1969
        Q: What U.S. production car had the largest 4 cylinder engine?

 

       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?              A: 1970 Gremlin, (AMC)
        Q: What is the Spirit of Ecstasy?

 

       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?

 

 A: The shape of founder Cecil Kimber's dining table.  MG stands for Morris Garages.