Interesting auto facts

Interesting auto facts
Q: What was the first official White House car?		A: A 1909 White Steamer, ordered by President Taft.
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 1960's?		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 was the first car fitted with a replaceable cartridge oil filter?		A: The 1924 Chrysler.
Q: What was the first car to be offered with a "perpetual guarantee"?		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?		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?		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?		A: The 1969 Pontiac Grand Prix.
Q: What car used the first successful series-production hydraulic valve lifters?		A: The 1930 Cadillac 452, the 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 Tornado 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 car was the first production V12, as well as the first production car with aluminum pistons?		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?		A: They were first used on the 1947 Packard line.
Q: Which of the Chrysler "letter cars" sold the fewest amount?		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)?		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?		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: 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?		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?		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.
Q: In what year did the "double-R" Rolls Royce badge change from red to black?		A: 1933

 

 

 

Tarzan

Tarzan ; I was at the pub yesterday, and I ran into Tarzan. I asked him how it was going, and if he was making any more movies. He told me, "me no longer make movies, me have severe arthritis, both shoulders bad and not swing from vine to tree no more". I asked about Boy, and he told me "Boy, gone big city, get with bad women, on drugs and alcoholic; and only time hear from him, when in trouble or need something". I asked how Jane was doing? He told me, "Jane in bad shape, in nursing home, has bad Alzheimer's and not recognizes anyone". How sad! ; I asked about Cheeta: He beamed and said, "Cheeta do good. She marry lawyer, had plastic surgery, now live in White House!!! ; ; ;

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Old Photos

"Waiting for the                 gong." Aboard the U.S.S. Oregon circa 1897 1912 World Series Fidel Castro laying a wreath at the                 Lincoln Memorial in Washington, 1959 British SAS back from a 3 month long                 patrol, North Africa, January 18, 1943 Japanese plane shot down during the                 Battle of Saipan, near Saipan; circa June 15 – July 9,                 1944 Fallout cloud above the Japanese city of                 Nagasaki, 20 minutes after the atomic bombing in                 1945 Contrails above London after dogfight                 between british and german aircraft. September                 1940 Benjamin, the last Tasmanian Tiger, at                 Beaumaris Zoo in 1933 A shell shocked reindeer as World War II                 planes drop bombs, by Yevgeny Khaldei, Mourmansk, Russia,                 1941 Earliest aerial photograph of an American                 city, titled "Boston, as the Eagle and the Wild Goose See It" –                 Taken from a hot air balloon Oct, 1860 Mount Rushmore Before                 Carving Apollo 16 astronaut Charles Duke's family                 photo left behind on the moon -1972 Brighton Swimming Club in their top hats                 and swim suits, 1863 The Mighty Titanic Prepares to Leave                 Port. 1912 Liberated Jewish man holds NAZI soldier                 at gunpoint during WWII, unknown date Colourized image of Osama Bin Laden (age                 14, second from right) and Family in Sweden,                 1971 Leo Tolstoy telling a story to his                 grandchildren, 1909 Photographer Lewis Hine shot images of                 young boys smoking cigarettes to emphasize the harmful effects                 of child labor. ca. 1880 John McCain being captured by Vietnamese                 civilians in Truc Bach Lake in Hanoi-1967 The Berlin Wall coming down. (November                 11, 1989) German air raid on Moscow,                 1941 Men eating bread and soup in a breadline                 during the Great Depression