The Anything Goes Quiz

Very close.

Think about why the fuel was in the engine compartment in the first place.

 

There have been a few answers that are very close to what I'm looking for.

The reason it's called a firewall is indeed to help prevent fuel fire from entering the passenger compartment. The reason it was needed is because the early automobiles had the fuel tanks attached to this bulkhead. This was because cars then did not have fuel pumps.

In order to get fuel from the tank to the engine, the tank was positioned higher than the carburetor so fuel would gravity flow into the carburetor. The biggest drawback to this was that cars could not drive up steep inclines as the tank would then become lower than the carburetor and the fuel would drain back into the tank and cause the engine to starve. In order to climb steep hills, cars had to drive up backwards.

 

Backwards!No way!I guess you still have the forum.I never would have got that one.

 

If you get a chance to look at some pictures of the Model T's and others of the period parked on a steep hill, you will notice that most will be facing downhill.

New question.

Let's stay with cars. What automobile company was the first to to offer radios as a factory installed option?

 

Well, the first commercially viable car radio was 1930, from Motorola. The first one designed for a dashboard install was 1936, through GM's Delco.

 

You are in the right decade. It wasn't dash mounted.

 

Perhaps you mean the Galvin Manufacturing model? That company became Motorola.

 

Thinking of the name of the car company not the radio maker. I think Motorola made the radio for it. It was mounted under the dash.

 

Oh, the name of the car company was GM...sorry.

 

Nope.

Hint: Cadillac's competitior.

 

Lincoln? Really! Learn something new every day...

 

Nope. Not Lincoln either.

They were one of the biggest contributors to the US war machine in WW2 but had a hard time making a go of things after the war.

 

packard

 

We have a winner!

The quiz is yours me262.

 

ME 262?

 

who was arne saknussemm?

 

A scientist?

 

The explorer in Jules Verne's "Journey to the Center of the Earth"?

 

yup,you got it!!!

 

Who was Captain Gars?