Ok gang, I think seeing how good the joke threads doing we'll get a automotive trivia thread going and see just how smart ya are when it comes to the automobile! Sound like a good idea?

First one we're gonna throw at'cha here is...

In what year was the PCV Valve made mandatory 50 state Nationwide?
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That would be Stump the CHUMPS!

I think I need more caffiene this morning!
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1966
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The "New" and Unimproved edcroozer... Charter D.S.R.A. member

My answer, nothing. They were never made mandatory in Alaska.
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MrWillys aka HRB
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Paint don't make 'em any faster!

This dont count sleds Bob..LOL

Any more guesses? Yes it was in the 60's...and some of ya are real close!
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Lead, follow, or get outta the way..unless your EdCroozer..Ya gotta watch out for that Deuce in the rear view mirror!

Well it has to be 1967, If I remember corectly, We started checking PCV`s in NYS Inspections that year.
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The "New" and Unimproved edcroozer... Charter D.S.R.A. member

1961

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homebrew

sixty nine!!!!!!!!!!!!
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MrWillys aka HRB
Member: Dipstick Street Rod Association
Paint don't make 'em any faster!

The PCV valve was made mandatory in 1963!
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Check your info Grant, I believe Steve hit it on the head. Not all American cars installed PCV`s in 63 or 64.
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The "New" and Unimproved edcroozer... Charter D.S.R.A. member

Your probably right Steve, I'm going by this Auto Trivia Book...and it's fixin to go out the window! LOL

Since there was a little confusion with that question here's another. Name ALL 60's Pontiac models.....
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Star Chief, Chieften, Bonneville, Catalina, Tempest, Bonneville 2+2, GTO, Judge, Firebird, Trans-am,....Brain fart............
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The "New" and Unimproved edcroozer... Charter D.S.R.A. member

Somebodys on their toes this afternoon! Ya got all 10 Ed...

Time to go work on "The Big Red 'Mater" got a local Little League Parade and Show Sunday.
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Man...And I`m not even a Pontiac guy.
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The "New" and Unimproved edcroozer... Charter D.S.R.A. member

Hey I protest the winner. What happened to the Grand Prix?
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Steve Jack
Marketing Technologies Limited,LLC
ConceptOne Brackets and Pulleys

and Lemans?
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Steve Jack
Marketing Technologies Limited,LLC
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Ok Steve...ya got me. Again....LOL
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Lead, follow, or get outta the way..unless your EdCroozer..Ya gotta watch out for that Deuce in the rear view mirror!

MMMMMM, Grand Prix and Le mans WAS the brain fart!
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The "New" and Unimproved edcroozer... Charter D.S.R.A. member

The Big Grand Prix and Le Mans or the small ones? They BOTH were brain farts!!!! No matter how big!!!
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Charter Member: Dipstick Street Rod Association

VENTURA!
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Digger
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I threw it away yesterday, now I have to go buy one
Just when you think you have won the Rat Race along come faster rats

A delapedated Nova....lol
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The "New" and Unimproved edcroozer... Charter D.S.R.A. member

Yes, you are partially right my son, however I wasn't thinking of those. 1960-61-62 and maybe earlier and later, the "Ventura" was a "Catalina" carrying Ventura badges,tri color interior and dif. trim.
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Digger
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I threw it away yesterday, now I have to go buy one
Just when you think you have won the Rat Race along come faster rats

Six of one...Half a dozen of the other, Pops....lol
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The "New" and Unimproved edcroozer... Charter D.S.R.A. member

wait a second....... I thought we had a winner. I went to another post and then I see we only had a partially correct answer.

Now I should have waited to see what really happened and now I forget the answer I had.

I don't remember forgetting my answer, but I must have forgotten it since I don't remember.


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I am NOT "tense" ... I'm TERRIBLY ALERT !
ag who ?
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Thanks to my wife , I now know the proper spelling and meaning of the word - ORGANISM

hey.....I'll play.

The Congress passed the law in 1966 that was for 1968 models and up!

How did I do?
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Steve Jack
Marketing Technologies Limited,LLC
ConceptOne Brackets and Pulleys

Hey Slammin',
I wwould rather stump the CMUMPS
they sound easier to stump.

1965 is my guess
Bob
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Cruzin' BE Fun!!!!!!
Better than cleaning stalls!!
Bob

1968
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phil


It's not a NOMAD, it's a Yeoman!
Not an engineer, but I DO drive a train.

BTW....Thats.."Stump the Champs"....lol
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The "New" and Unimproved edcroozer... Charter D.S.R.A. member

Ok Hot Rod!

Movie car triva.... What was the year AND make of the car used in the ORIGINAL movie "Halloween"
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What year did the brain fart come out? Was that a size smaller than the Grand Prix?
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Lynn Stallbaumer

Gee, this is kinda fun, can anybody play?
Here's a couple, probably too easy for you experts though.
1. What was the higest horsepower rating Chevy ever put on a production small block engine and what was the year and application?


2. What was the only transmission option offered by chevy in the 1983 Corvette?

I don't have a book handy to back this up, just 58 year old gray matter. BTW, I had one of the vehicles referred to in question #1, wish I'd hung onto it.


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Measure twice; cut once, ie. "I cut it three times and it's still too short"

Woops, Make that horsepower in an iron block small chevy.
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I would say the highest HP rating for a Chevy small block by the factory was the 1965 "fuelie" motor at 365 HP.
As for #2, I have no idea! FredP
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Fred P.

Excellent Fred, you get a silver star, would have been gold, but your off just a little on the H.P. rating
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I mentioned the '65 fuelie motor as thats what I was told at the time as being 365 HP but It did indeed feel like more. I put the motor in a '60 vette with 4:11 rear gears and the close ratio iron case 4 speed. It only had a 16 gallon tank behind the drivers seat and if the seals went bad like mine did, the gas fumes wouls eat the convertable top into little bits. At the strip on weekends usings Mickys slicks, I could turn a mean 12.20....not bad for a street car in the mid '60's !!! I almost got banned from the Ft Rucker post with it for outrunning an officer in a Jag! spoil sports!
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Fred P.

Hey Ed, I luv it, you shudda worked for The Chrysler Corp. back then. Fred, those were the good, or maybe the BAB old days, whichever, it sure was fun HUH?
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OK people, you`ll remember the answer to this one if you were a youngster in the 50`s. Name the Edsel lines.
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tom urban

Sorry Tom, missed your post before. OK here we go with Edsels--Citation,Corsair,Ranger,Pacer,Villager,Bermuda and Roundup, what did I miss?
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Digger
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I threw it away yesterday, now I have to go buy one
Just when you think you have won the Rat Race along come faster rats

you missed BAARRRRRFFFFFFF!!

And look, Chevy stole the name Citation, some plane manufacturer took Corsair, Ford took back Ranger, AMC took Pacer, the islands took the name Bermuda, and the chemical Company took the name Roundup to kill plants. Talk about getting parted out...
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phil


It's not a NOMAD, it's a Yeoman!
Not an engineer, but I DO drive a train.

Its all about inflation my friend! LOL...Everything changes, nothing stays the same. In some cases thats good, in some...well. They're better off. LOL

Grant
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If it dont fit, shoe-horn it!

Hold back on the medication there Grant.....lol
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The "New" and Unimproved edcroozer... Charter D.S.R.A. member

Speak for yourself there Pamper boy! LOL JK...By the way, ya still gettin that yearly shipment I sent ya?
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If it dont fit, shoe-horn it!

Ya probably noticed already that no one to my knowledge ever took the name "Edsel" again..lol I loved those late 50's and early 60's Hydromatics! In a '60 Olds sedan I once had, You could be sitting at a light and stomp the brake with yur left foot and hit the gas with the right and that thing would make more noise and tire smoke..!!! At one point, I filled an entire intersection with tire smoke and I'm sure some one just knew that there was a car fire some where there!!! Didn't Buick have the Flush-O-Matic?? Or was that the Dyno-Flush........ It seemed to me as a kid that when they took off, the engine speed remained fairly constant and the car just slowly kept accelerating till the engine speed and car speed seemed to match. lol
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Fred P.

Hey Fred!!! That reminds me of a 49 buick my buddy had in 1950. Convertable w/all the bells & whistles anyway, He'd throw that baby in "R" ,and that didn't stand for race, just to give the girls a thrill. It'd just slowly slow down ,kinda like slow motion. Well one day a chrysler town & country conv't pulls out in front of us as we're doin about 60, He threw it in reverse & it sure saved us from a heck of a wreck. Yeah he had to replace the tranny . eventually. B-O-B DSRA
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Burn Out Bob DSRA member

I had one of those Hydro`s in my 50 olds....What a great car......Boo-Hoo, I don`t have it anymore and the new owner refuses to sell it back.
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The "New" and Unimproved edcroozer... Charter D.S.R.A. member

Here's some crackers for ya, ed. [] [] []
Sorry, I don't have any cheese. LOL
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phil


It's not a NOMAD, it's a Yeoman!
Not an engineer, but I DO drive a train.

I still have dreams of that 'vette. How many of us have let cars like that, that were fun mobiles, go on to someone else? Even my wife misses it! Get this, it was a '60 and in '65, I gave $1350.00 for it!! little did I know about changing the motor ,that it lost it's "matching numbers!"
Besides, I blew the little 283 it came with about as bad as one can be grenaded. Parts went every where but thru the hood! and all this as an E4 paying child support and raising a new family! ooooooeeeeeeeee!
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Fred P.

Ok, in the 60's Ford had the Ford-O-Matic transmission, Chevrolet had the Hydro-matic.

Question is, what car had the Cruise-O-Matic?
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Cruis-o-matic was.another Ford trans. Chevys were almost all Powerglides with a few Turboglides thrown in (early)
All the rest of GM had the hyramatics.
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Digger
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I threw it away yesterday, now I have to go buy one
Just when you think you have won the Rat Race along come faster rats

Mercury.
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The "New" and Unimproved edcroozer... Charter D.S.R.A. member

Mercury called theirs "Merc-O-Matic", Cruis-o-matic came out in Fords in the late 50's I Believe Merc-O-matic and Ford-o-Matic are one in the same. There was also a "Flash-o-Matic made by Ford.
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Digger
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I threw it away yesterday, now I have to go buy one
Just when you think you have won the Rat Race along come faster rats

Didn`t Mercury have a car called Turnpike Cruiser in the 60`s? And on the steering wheel it said Cruise O Matic?
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The "New" and Unimproved edcroozer... Charter D.S.R.A. member

Turnpike cruiser I believe was 57-58 and you could be right although you might be thinking of the Edsel steering wheel.
I don't have that good a memory (I looked it up)http://www.bantapubnet.com/gears/2001/may01/oldies.html
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Digger
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I threw it away yesterday, now I have to go buy one
Just when you think you have won the Rat Race along come faster rats

BTW--Grant You can call me a chump but calling me a Cmump is stepping over the line! I just wanted you to know that.
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Digger
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I threw it away yesterday, now I have to go buy one
Just when you think you have won the Rat Race along come faster rats

If my memorys right the answer to #2 is they didn't make Corvette in '83 what-so-ever (I hope...pray...think), or was it '82...or '84? Somewhere in the 80's they didn't make 'em for a year. I know that much.

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Wow, can't trick you guys, not that I would ever try LOL.
You're right Slammin, Chevy built consecutive year vettes from 1953 to present, except 1983, that was the transition from C-3 to C-4 styles.
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I belive the 302 had more ponies than 365. They didn`t make 83 Vettes
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The "New" and Unimproved edcroozer... Charter D.S.R.A. member

Ed, Those little 302s (I think they were dseignated "DZ") would really wind up some rpm. But seems to me they were rated around 290 horse. The real neat little cross ram intake setup on those was a dealer installed option and I don't know if they ever actually gave it a H.P. rating. The 65 vette fuelie engine was rated at more than 365.
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That was the rated HP, For insurance. The dual quad 302 came in with 420HP.
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The "New" and Unimproved edcroozer... Charter D.S.R.A. member

Ed,
I was just refering to the advertised hp figures and of course a new LS-1 would blow the doors off and old 375 horse fuelie, used to be gross H.P. figures and now they use net. I follow what your saying about the 302's, the L88's were way under rated also, so you could get insurance on the old Sting Ray.
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Now there`s a stump puller!... L-88.....Has a ring to it.
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The "New" and Unimproved edcroozer... Charter D.S.R.A. member

shoulda left well enough alone.
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phil


It's not a NOMAD, it's a Yeoman!
Not an engineer, but I DO drive a train.

Yeah Phil,
I guess this would have been better trivia for over on ChevyTalk, But you guys are a lot more fun!!!
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Measure twice; cut once, ie. "I cut it three times and it's still too short"

I meant Chevy should've left well enough alone. Well, I guess some people like vettes.

Okay, if anyone watched the speed channel today, they'll know how Carroll Shelby named the Hertz Mustangs GT350H, and how the GT40 race car got its' name. Anyone care to try?
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phil


It's not a NOMAD, it's a Yeoman!
Not an engineer, but I DO drive a train.

I know ya'll are busy tryin to figure out Steves guessin contest, but thought I'd try to keep the trivia thread alive. I don't think you Mopar guys should be eligible for this cause it would be too easy. Back in the early seventies Mopar had some neat names for the colors that were called "hi impact" (I think). I believe there were about seven or eight. The easy one is "Plum Crazy (purple) anybody know some of the others?
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"Fire Engine" Red...uhhhmmm.."Puke" Green...no wait that was Granadas color chart. LOL...Oh wait I know, How about "EdCroozer Green"? (Ya had to see the now red deuce a few months back to understand why I say this).
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That was "Diaper suprise green"
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