[MelvinJ]

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.



Mind Taking!

 

[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]

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]

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.

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]

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]

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.



BAM!

 

[Hudson]

What year did Cadillac introduce its first six-cylinder car? What model was it?

What company did Pontiac evolve from? What company did that company evolve from?

What line of business was Buick's founder in before making cars?

 

[philr]

What year did Cadillac introduce its first six-cylinder car? What model was it?

What company did Pontiac evolve from? What company did that company evolve from?

What line of business was Buick's founder in before making cars?

1- 1983 DeVille/Fleetwood with Buick 4.1 V6?

2-Oakland

3-OHV Engines, plumbing equipment.

 

[Hudson]

2-Oakland

And the rest of the question?

 

[SSrevolution]

1. What was the heaviest Chevrolet car ever made?
1975 Caprice conv

2. What was the longest car GM ever made?
59 Cadillac Eldorado

3. What car had the longest hood of any Chevy?
1at gen Monte Carlo

4. The quickest production car in 1987?
Buick GNX

5. The best selling Chevy car name plate?
Impala

6. The longest running vehicle name plate of any maker?
Suburban

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?
Corvette

9. How many years did they they make the Monte Carlo Aerocoupe?
1 - 87

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

Cool I got 5 right. I was soooooo close on number 1. I didn't know they made a wagon of that in that year or thats what I would've said.

 

[philr]

And the rest of the question?

Oakland evolved from Pontiac!


Buick's 4.1V6 4bbl was a credit delete option starting in 1980 until 1982.

We had one in the shop a few months back for servicing...an '81 Coupe deVille, in MINT condition!

I didn't know they had it so early! I knew a guy who had a Fleetwood with this engine, I thought it was an 1983, so maybe it was an 1982... Anyway, I can't tell the difference between 1982 and 1983 Cadillacs!

 

[SobeSVT]

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.



BAM!

Excellent!

 

[philr]

More Gm Trivia

1-What was the first GM model to have a standard tilt steering wheel?

2-Which car has the model # 46669? Which years was it available?
3-What is this car?(year and model)



4-And what about this one?(model only will be fine!)



5-What was the last GM division to offer an AM-FM stereo radio as an option in it's cars?

6-What was the longest 4 door hardtop car that GM made?(and it's overall length measurement)

 

[MCGARRETT]

What company did Pontiac evolve from? What company did that company evolve from?

Pontiac came from Oakland which came from Pontiac!

Oakland grew from the Pontiac Buggy Company which dates back to 1893.


#3-1967 Pontiac Grand Prix

#4-mid 70's Buick Skylark

#5-Chevrolet

#5-1974-1976 Cadillac Sedan deVille at 229 inches

 

[philr]

#3-1967 Pontiac Grand Prix

#4-mid 70's Buick Skylark

#5-Chevrolet

#6-1974-1976 Cadillac Sedan deVille at 229 inches

#3-That's a 67 Pontiac but it's not a Grand Prix..

#4-That's a Buick but it's not a Skylark (even if it looks like one, it's not an Apollo either)

#5-In fact Chevrolet was the first division to have a stereo radio!

#6-The longest hardtop car is it's over 233" long, and it's not a DeVille...

Keep searching!

 

[MCGARRETT]

3 and 4


Are they weird Canada only models?

Down here, to me at least, the top car is a Grand Prix and the sedan is either a Skylark or and Apollo.


I am going to use basic deduction for 6...

I assume that you mean a full hardtop sedan, without any pillars, not just hardtop doors without frames.

Longest car? I assume that it would be a Cadillac.

Hardtop? So it would have to have been built before 1976 when GM built it's last hardtop full size cars.

Cadillac did not built a hardtop Fleetwood after 1964, all Fleetwoods were pillared 4 door sedans for 1965 on.

From 1959 to 1964 the Cadillac Fleetwood and DeVille sedan use the same wheelbase.

So I am going to guess....1958 Cadillac Fleetwood.


On the radios...I assumed Chevrolet since it was the lower end car...

I know that Cadillac offered an FM radio in 1964 or so, Pontiac offered FM around 1964-65, not sure about Oldsmobile...

What about GMC?