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61. The rental agency needs to know the name of the 1953 film in which two cars compete against each other in the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run? It is also the name of one of the cars.

From Quiz Vintage Auto Rental

Answer: Genevieve

Genevieve is a 1904 Darracq, owned by Alan and Wendy McKim. They make a bet, and race in the popular London to Brighton run, against their friend Ambrose Claverhouse, who owns a 1904 Spyker.

From Quiz The Engine....VROOM-VROOM!

Answer: Piston

The piston fits into the cylinder walls and receives the force that is made when the gas and spark is made in the combustion chamber. As the piston is forced down, the crankshaft spins the flywheel causing the transmission to rotate.

From Quiz Cool Cars!

Answer: V8

The Atom 500 is also known as the Atom V8.

From Quiz Crazy About Cars?

Answer: 1945

The company had been known as the S.S. Cars Limited but after the War, due to the connotations from the War of the SS initials the name of the company was changed to Jaguar Cars Limited.

From Quiz How To Read A Tire

Answer: Width of the tire in millimeters

The 215 indicates this tire is 215 millimeters across from the widest point of its outer sidewall to the widest point of its inner sidewall when mounted and measured on a specified width wheel. This is also referred to as the tire's section width.

From Quiz A True Vintage Automobile

Answer: 500 foot pounds

The Monte Carlo was labeled a two door luxury car. Even though it had 360 horsepower and a single four-barrel carburetor. You might have expected more with all that low end torque, considering that the Monte Carlo had a 7.4 liter V8.

From Quiz My Kingdom for a...Hearse

Answer: Beginning of the switch to motorized hearses from horse-drawn

Before roughly 1900, hearses were pulled by horses. The first motorized hearse is believed to have been built around 1901. Initially, motorized hearses used electric motors (did you think electric vehicles were new?), but as internal combustion engines became the preferred mode for transportation, hearses followed suit. In the U.S., the first internal combustion engine-powered hearse is believed to have appeared in 1909, used for the funeral of a Wilfrid Pruyn. The vehicle was custom built for an undertaker by the name of H.D. Ludlow, and it was constructed from the carriage of a horse-drawn hearse and the chassis of a bus. For some years, undertakers and funeral directors continued to prefer horse-drawn hearses because the new motorized ones cost about four times as much, but gradually as automobiles and trucks became more common, so did the motorized hearse.

From Quiz Drove My Chevy to the Levee

Answer: Dodge Lodge

Dodge began selling car parts in 1900, but didn't begin making entire vehicles until 1914. Vehicles include the Dodge Ram, Nitro, Viper, and Charger. Lodges are small cabins that are typically used as small vacation homes in the mountains. They are widely used during the hunting season.

From Quiz Mechanical Mayhem

Answer: Alternator

Alternators produce alternating current, much like what comes into your home, but is converted to direct current by the zener diode.

From Quiz Here's the Model, What's the Make?

Answer: Volkswagen

Famously founded by Adolf Hitler and Ferdinand Porsche in 1938 as 'the people's car', Volkswagen is currently the third largest manufacturer of cars in the world. The best known and loved model is the Beetle. Who can forget Number 53? The Love Bug Herbie himself!

From Quiz Tire Fundamentals

Answer: On your vehicle's placard located somewhere on the car.

The inflation on the tire is the maximum it can be, which is not always the best for your car. You should always go by what is on the placard on the car. It can be found on the inside of the door, in the trunk, or in the glove compartment.

From Quiz Cars with a previous life

Answer: Talbot

Peugeot took over what was Chrysler Europe in 1978. With this came the rebranding of all the products to the name Talbot. So what started as a Hillman Avenger then became a Chrysler Avenger and ended its life in 1981 as a Talbot Avenger. Outside Europe, it was sold as the Plymouth Cricket (USA), Volswagen 1800 (Argentina) and under various Dodge names in other South American countries.

From Quiz Hollywood Cars

Answer: Plymouth 'Cuda

Nash drove the 1971 Plymouth 'Cuda (short for Barracuda). The convertible option made it a very rare car. And yes, it did have a Hemi.

From Quiz Little Known Secrets of the Automotive World

Answer: Jim Hall

The Chaparral was a Chevy-powered racer of the early sixties, raced by Jim Hall, that did a lot for the prestige of "Detroit Iron" in professional auto-racing. This was a car that won races hand over fist with small-block Chevrolet V-8s. Jim Hall raced them and eventually hired others to.

From Quiz Clued in on Cars

Answer: Buick

The Buick is sometimes used in literature to signify the American way of life. A male deer is known as a buck.

From Quiz Car Flake VI

Answer: Henry Ford II

Henry Ford II, a somewhat servy fellow, didn't like the idea of retooling his assembly line to accommodate the new engine, which, at the time, hadn't been perfected yet. Mazda, on the other hand, a company Ford owns a sizeable amount of stock in, at one time had based its entire line on the rotary powerplant. Oddly enough, even 'they' gave up on it after it had trouble with seals lining the engine chamber. Except for the RX-8, (and even 'it' has problems,) Mazda's line is now entirely piston driven. Mazda also has a Toyota/Honda/Subaru level reputation for quality.

From Quiz Random Euro Cars

Answer: A-class

Mercedes-Benz first introduced the C-class in 1993 as a replacement for its 190 range of automobiles. The A-class has helped Mercedes-Benz, since the model line's introduction in 1997/1998, to break into the very in-demand market for supermini automobiles.

From Quiz Car Flake V

Answer: The Greenbrier

In another case of Detroit co-inky-dink...with the exception of Chrysler, which was late coming to the "family van" market, Chevrolet and Ford introduced panel and windowed-van models in the early 60s at exactly the same time. Chevrolet's version was the Greenbrier. This venerable van was based on the Corvair chassis and was rear-engined. Both the Chevy and the Ford models were roughly the same size as the present mini-vans produced by every domestic manufacturer. General Motors, alas, has had a lot of problems with this segment since introducing the Chevy Van in the early seventies. Its mini-van models have been criticized time and again for their chintzy construction and mediocre engineering. During the 50s, both GM and Ford had decent quality control, at least superficially. GM has gotten so big, it had a rather extended period of total mediocrity, starting somewhere in the late 70s, after a similar patch in the late 60s and very early 70s. By all reports, things are supposedly looking up these days.

From Quiz Car Flake IV

Answer: The Austin-Healey Sprite and the MG Midget

Though the Sprite came first, in 1958, originally as a bug-eyed roller skate about as small as you can get, the MG Midget eventually followed it in its Mk. II stage. It and the Sprite Mk. II were totally badge engineered, with only trim differences differentiating the cars in the early years of the Midget, (1961-1979; the Sprite, alas, only lasted until '71). In the years past 1971, the Midget was developed alone, and gained engine size, external door handles and other features that set it apart from its discontinued stablemate. Nearly a quarter of a million of these cars were sold over the course of 18 years...very good for a British import!

From Quiz Random Car Things

Answer: Trevor

Trevor is the name of the creator his name is TreVoR Wilkinson.

From Quiz Automotive Flops in America

Answer: Suzuki

The X-90 was made from 1996-1998. 7,290 of the 2-seat SUV were sold.

From Quiz Car Flake III

Answer: The Wildcat

This model was specific to the 60s and early 70s and hasn't been revived since! It was supposedly the "sport" model in the full-size Buick lineup, but trying to equate the word "sport" with the name "Buick" is a difficult feat at best. It was essentially gaudier than a Le Sabre and much less formal than an Electra, and actually sold fairly well. The Invicta was a model that lasted from 1959 to 1964. The Wildcat essentially replaced it in '65. The Special was both a Buick "senior compact" of the early 60s and a large car of the 50s. The Star Chief was, of course, the mid-range Pontiac of the 50s and early 60s. The Le Sabre, Invicta and Electra names were introduced in the 1959 model year.

From Quiz Car Flake II

Answer: The Fairlady Z

The Nissan Z began life in Japan as the Fairlady Z back in 1966, developing into the immediately popular 240-Z for the American market in 1969. The car was the vanguard for a revolution in sports car design that made all the British marques look sick, specifically the output of the British Motor Company, or BMC, the makers of the MG-B, Sprite and Midget. The car handled, moved better and was more reliable by whole three digit percentage points than the sports cars coming from Europe. It was easily the equal of the cars coming from Italy in handling, stopping and overall excitement, but had what is now the legendary Japanese attention to quality control and long-term viability, something no one but Mercedes had at the time. Now even Mercedes can't hold a candle to the Japanese companies like Toyota, Nissan and Honda... The 240 Z eventually evolved into the 260 Z, the 280 Z, the 280 ZX, the 300 Z and ZX, (two model cycles,) and the present 350 Z, by all accounts, the best one so far. Would you believe the Z originally cost only $3500+, American?

From Quiz Automotive Knowledge

Answer: 217mph

Ruf is an aftermarket company that customizes Porsches.

From Quiz Auto Acronyms

Answer: anti-lock

Remember the good ol' days when you had to "pump" your brakes to stop on a slippery road? The ABS (anti-lock braking system) actually "pumps" the brakes for you at a much faster speed resulting in a faster stop and the ability to steer while you're stopping.

From Quiz Meanings of Car Names #3

Answer: Axiom

It would be a self-evident truth that the Axiom has quite a unique design with raised headlights above the grill and a slightly smaller body than the Isuzu Ascender.

From Quiz Meaning of Car Names #2

Answer: Matrix

Luckily, the Matrix does not look like it was made out of rows and columns. And the word is the Keanu Reeves does not own a Matrix, but he knows quite a bit about it.

From Quiz Meaning of Car Names

Answer: Sable

Although sable also means black clothing worn in mourning, it is usually plural. And I'm sure no one wants to think about that while they're driving a car, anyway.

From Quiz Lights, Camera, Accelerator! Cars in the Movies

Answer: 1968 Dodge Charger 440

Both cars careen around San Francisco at speeds up to 110 MPH - you can see the Charger doing some serious leaning in the turns. A really exciting chase flawed (for some purists) by scene repetition. Both cars were built by Max Balchowski and were driven by Carey Loftin, Bud Ekins (who also laid down the motorcycle in this chase) and Steve McQueen himself.

From Quiz Who Made It?

Answer: Russia

Lada is Russia's largest manufacturer of cars and light trucks.

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