balthazar
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Weather here in Jersey FINALLY broke, and hopefully for good. I believe it was in the low 60s, I was working outside in just a t-shirt (OK, I was ALSO wearing pants). Had cleared some of the off-season flotsam from around the COE yesterday, and tonight I finished cleaning the crud out of the driver's rear brake, pulled the shoes & cleaned/lubed everything & reinstalled the shoes. They have funky brass 'bearings' at the bottom anchor point, that allows the shoes to pivot there. Shoes have excellent material with no visible cracking or other deterioration. Want to get the rear brakes done & back together. This is the Year of the Re-Roading; the '40 is 75 years old this year!!
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Z-06 : CORRECT on # 3 & # 4. Wil'm Maley : CORRECT on # 2 & #5 Z : looking for a different answer for # 6.
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"This is the advantage that BMW and Mercedes have, because Toyota, GM or VW can't copy their strategy" GM already did the I4/ I5/ I6 thing. Old hat with OLD configurations. "The 2.0 inline 4 and 3.0 inline six share something like 75% of their parts" Atlas I4 and I6 shared 75% of their parts. Old hat with OLD configurations. Mercedes following General Motors. - - - - - I looked at a Packard I8 for sale a bunch of years ago, it was an amazing hunk of iron. Should've scooped it up.
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1.) What car was reportedly sketched on the back of an air sickness bag and released on April Fool's Day? 2.) What was automaker MG's octagonal badge shape modeled after? 3.) Dodge built 505 copies of the 1969 'Winged Warrior' Dodge Charger Daytona. Why did Plymouth build so many more copies of the Daytona's sister car, the 1970 Road Runner Superbird? (1,920 units)? 4.) Name an automobile model that every one made featured a dash plate that guaranteed it had been driven over 100 MPH. 5.) In 1934, less than 10% of Jaguar's annual production was exported. What was that figure by 1951? a.) 15% b.) 25% c.) 55% d.) 85% 6.) How was the vehicle style name 'pickup' born? View full article
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1.) What car was reportedly sketched on the back of an air sickness bag and released on April Fool's Day? 2.) What was automaker MG's octagonal badge shape modeled after? 3.) Dodge built 505 copies of the 1969 'Winged Warrior' Dodge Charger Daytona. Why did Plymouth build so many more copies of the Daytona's sister car, the 1970 Road Runner Superbird? (1,920 units)? 4.) Name an automobile model that every one made featured a dash plate that guaranteed it had been driven over 100 MPH. 5.) In 1934, less than 10% of Jaguar's annual production was exported. What was that figure by 1951? a.) 15% b.) 25% c.) 55% d.) 85% 6.) How was the vehicle style name 'pickup' born? -
Likely the option price ($400 on other Chryslers) played a factor when a brand new '54 Bel Air coupe was $2061 Imagine a brake option today that cost $4500 (one-fifth the cost of $23,000 vehicle).
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b…b…but googling is CHEATING. That is correct of course. The Ausco Lambert disc brake was standard equipment on the '50-54 Chrysler Imperials… on all four corners. They were optional on other series, also. These were the first disc brakes on a American production car. They mess with the 'car brain' because they obviously look like drum brakes. (I say 'obviously', tho I wonder if any here perhaps have never seen a drum brake in person…)
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Ooooooooo! No. Is such a thing a real thing?
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Well…. get the last one!
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"But the BMW 3/4-series outsold the ATS in Kalamazoo…."
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iPods were for the 1%ers? There's an immeasurably higher stake with a SDC than a palm-sized file storage device. Or put another way; maybe 1% of an average SDC IS an 'iPod'. - - - - - I get your point; the price will come down. The question is, will it in a timely enough manner to enable business entities invested in this to survive, and -whereas an iPod carved a new segment in personal music players- the SDC (aside from niche scenarios like handicapped buyers) really is just one new facet on the same cut stone- it is still functionally a personal transportation device. Now, if it enabled teleportation…. My point is, I don't expect to see these ever become commonplace in my lifetime.
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DD- #5 is correct. Actually, my list was 12 auto brands named after states, and I'm positive there were more. - - - - - That just leaves Question #1….
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ocn : nice detective work, very thorough. You're way off tho. Z : You are correct on #3. You missed the hint on #5 tho.
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^ #4 is correct; Schluderschmidt is a fictitious brand. Don't you just LOVE LOVE LOVE the brand name 'Skiddoodler'?? I can't stop finding ways to work it into my around-house banter since learning it a week ago. If their tagline wasn't "Scoot around in a Skiddoodler'… well, it's no wonder the brand didn't make it; marketing. Cause they had the name LOCKED DOWN. - - - - - Question #5 rephrase :: which of these state names was NOT a proposed car brand name. Hint; it's a trick question.
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^ "Well that's fair because the GL uses ball bearing slides on the ashtrays."
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Ahhh; close enough! Ford bought the right to use the name from the Comet Coach Company in 1959, causing Comet to rename their entity to the 2 partner's surnames: Cotner-Bevington. C-B was the 'go to' coach builder for Olds' chassis'd professional cars.
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^ "Yeah… well… what about the trunk mat? Mercedes uses a spun silk trunk mat and therefore…"
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