Gm Trivia

[IAMCANADIAN]

Originally Posted by MCGARRETT

You answered #6?

OOPS, Sorry my bad, I mean #5

[MCGARRETT]

Your warm on the Corvette convertible question, but no...

You got one out of 2 on the Pontiac 50th Anniversary question.

I am going to let the digital instrument question out there for a little while to see if someone comes up with it.

[cemaxc]

Originally Posted by MCGARRETT

1-Blue Flame straight 6 with side draft carburators and a 2 speed Powerglide automatic

2-By company, I assume you mean division? Chevrolet Motor Divsion built the rear engined Corvair in 1960.

3-Again, I assume you mean divsion-Fisher Body Division.

You got number 1 and 3, but you only got half of 2. Yes the engine was for the Corvair but another company designed the engine for GM, who promptly cheapened it up, which company was it?

Mine were obviously not very hard...ohwell

[cemaxc]

Originally Posted by MCGARRETT

I am going to throw a couple out...


1-Last year you could have gotten a big block in a Corvette?

2-Last year for a Corvette convertible before 1986?

3-First and last year the Cadillac offered a 500 cid engine?

4-The 1980 Cadillac Seville was the first car in the world to combine what features?

5-The first car GM ever offered with a digital dashboard was?

6-Scooter, Sandpiper, Rallye...were trim levels of what car?

7-GM's first car designed to be "all metric" was?

8-To clebrate it's 50th anniversary in 1976, this GM division offered 50th Anniversary packages on which 2 models?

1,2,3 answered allready
4. I want to say airbags and either ABS or seatbelt pretensioners, I know it was some group of safety features.
5. The gen 4 Corvette had a digital dash if I remember correctly, It was also an option on the Cadillac Alante in 89'.
7. a guess? Chevy Vega?
8. Pontiac Tempest, AKA GTO.

[Hudson]

4-The 1980 Cadillac Seville was the first car in the world to combine what features?

FWD and a diesel V8

[MelvinJ]

Originally Posted by MCGARRETT

Your warm on the Corvette convertible question, but no...

You got one out of 2 on the Pontiac 50th Anniversary question.

I am going to let the digital instrument question out there for a little while to see if someone comes up with it.

1975 was the last Corvette convertible of the 70's.

And I believe there was a 50th anniversary Trans Am.

As for digital dashes, I can think of several introduced in '84 - the Corvette, STE, Berlinetta, but I'm wondering if a Cadillac had one prior to that.

Was the '80 Seville also the first car to combine 4-doors, FWD, and a V8?

[MCGARRETT]

Everyone is close on the Seville, but there are a couple of more things that it had...

FWD, Diesel V8......

1975 was the last Corvette convertible of the 70's.

And I believe there was a 50th anniversary Trans Am.

Yes, 1975 was the last convertible Corvette and Pontiac did have a 50th Anniversary package for the Trans Am and Grand Prix.



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[ejfx]

1. What was the heaviest Chevrolet car ever made?
Fully loaded 1975 Caprice Estate Wagon, 5109 lbs.

2. What was the longest car GM ever made?
1975 Cadillac Fleetwood - Seventy-Five Series - 9 passenger sedan.

3. What car had the longest hood of any Chevy?
First generation Monte Carlo

4. The quickest production car in 1987?
1987 Grand National GNX

5. The best selling Chevy car name plate?
Chevy Impala

6. The longest running vehicle name plate of any maker?
Chevy Suburban Carry-All

7. What year do they not make the Vette?
1983

8. What car did GM claim was the first that could go 100,000 miles between tune ups?
1992 Olds Achieva

9. How many years did they they make the Monte Carlo Aerocoupe?
Two...1986 - 1987

10. What year was plastic first used in a Chevy?
1940 Special Deluxe

[DanCBJMS1988]

Originally Posted by GMCSonoma

Ranger was a Vauxhall that was either sold in South Africa or in the Benelux region of Europe....or BOTH

You're close on the Benelux part, but wrong on the Vauxhall part.

So, my question was "Outside of Ford, when was the Ranger nameplate used by GM?"

The answer I did not know until I saw an obscure book published by the Automobile Club of Italy and published in the US by Herald Publishing, Inc., in NYC, called World Cars 1976. Then I found it again on Wikipedia.

Ranger was the name of a rebodied Opel Rekord sold in the Benelux area. It was made by GM Continental N.V., which was located in the Netherlands. (GM Continental N.V.'s successor, GM Nederland B.V., does not make cars anymore and is the Netherland's main sales organization, selling mostly Opels and Chevys.) However, there might be a possibility that the Ranger was made in GM's Antwerp (Belgium) facility which currently makes the Opel Astra. The first was the Ranger 130 of 1968. By 1972, the Ranger was made up of the 1700, 1900 and 2500, and in 1974 a 2800 model was added. It never caught on and became defunct in 1976. World Cars 1977 and World Cars 1978 does not mention the Ranger at all.

A link to a history of the Opel Rekord is listed below. What is does is that it takes each body style of the Opel Rekord and international derivatives, and looks at them year by year and bodystyle by bodystyle. It is pretty interesting, to say the least.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~mjs/rekord.html

GM Nederland B.V.
http://www.gmeurope.com/about/gm_netherlands.html

GM Belgium (this includes the Antwerp plant)
http://www.gmeurope.com/about/gm_belgium.html

[Hudson]

Originally Posted by ejfx

6. The longest running vehicle name plate of any maker?
Chevy Suburban Carry-All

Like I said, I don't think this was built in consecutive years since its introduction.

Originally Posted by ejfx

7. What year do they not make the Vette?
1983

But they DID built 1983 Corvettes.

[MCGARRETT]

They did build some, but there was no 1983 Corvette offered to the public.

[ejfx]

Originally Posted by MCGARRETT

They did build some, but there was no 1983 Corvette offered to the public.

Your right...I should have clarified that...5 were made, of the three 2 were dismantled and never seen again...one was lost in a warhouse fire...the other two were given to the GM President and Manager of the Chevy division to mark the Vetts 30th Anniversary...but nobody seems to know where they are now...?

[Hudson]

Originally Posted by ejfx

Your right...I should have clarified that...5 were made, of the three 2 were dismantled and never seen again...one was lost in a warhouse fire...the other two were given to the GM President and Manager of the Chevy division to mark the Vetts 30th Anniversary...but nobody seems to know where they are now...?

I believe the number produced was closer to 17. Only one remains (it's in the Bowling Green museum).

[SobeSVT]

Who founded the company that became the Cadillac Automobile Company, and which was that company's first name?

[MCGARRETT]

Cadillac was formed from the remains of the Henry Ford Company, which was Fords first auto venture before the Ford Motor Company. Henry M. Leland was brought it by Fords creditors to appraise the factory, Leland, having interest in the then new and growing automobile trade, made and offer to Fords creditors for the entire Henry Ford Company. Leland was unsure what to name his car, he choose the name of the French founder of Detroit, Antione De La Mothe de Cadillac....and Cadillac was born.



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