The Annual Sound Classics “Classicly Tough Trivia Quiz” Answers

Now, the time you have been waiting for: the answers!
  1. (14 points) Mopar’s 1970 model year “High Impact” exterior colors were (option code- Dodge name / Chrysler-Plymouth name) FC7-Plum Crazy Metallic/In Violet Metallic, FJ5-Sublime/Lime Light, FJ6-Green Go/Sassy Grass Green, EK2-Go Mango/Vitamin "C" Orange, FM3-Panther Pink/Moulon Rouge, V2-Hemi Orange, FY1-Top Banana/Lemon Twist. The media gave Plum Crazy a nickname of “Statutory Grape”…creative, albeit not politically correct.
  2. (1 point) Before powering cars from Ford, Lotus, Fairthorpe, Cooper and others, the Coventry Climax engine pumped water for firemen.
  3. (2 points) Porsche renamed the 901 to 911, because Peugeot cornered the rights to all three-number model names with zero in the middle.
  4. (1 point) The 1954 Mercedes 300SL “gullwing” was the first to utilize fuel injection, a Bosch mechanical system.
  5. (3 points) While the Fiat Dino (Coupe and Spyder) and Lancia Stratos used the Dino six-cylinder engine, Ferrari’s own 206GT, 246GT and 246GTS were all marketed simply as “Dino” with no prancing horse emblems, attempting to separate these entry-level cars from more expensive Ferraris.
  6. (1 point) The 1963 NSU Wankel Spider was first to utilize Felix Wankel’s rotary engine.
  7. (7 points) European cars utilizing Ford V8s include: DeTemaso Mangusta and Pantera, Sunbeam Tiger, many TVR models, AC Cobra (“Shelby” Cobras were considered American production cars.) Cars from Bristol, Jensen, Monteverdi, Facel Vega utilized Chrysler V8s. Chevy small blocks were the power plant of choice for cars from Iso, Bizzarini and Gordon Keeble.
  8. (1 point) The car in the picture was my 1968 Triumph TR-250, a one-year model featuring the body of the TR4 with the six-cylinder used throughout TR-6 production. It is distinguished from other TRs by the factory-applied transverse nose stripe.
  9. (1 point) Bill Mitchell said that removing the split-window from the Corvette Sting Ray coupe for 1964 models “spoiled the whole car.”
  10. (2 points) Cadillac and Marmon offered production V-16 engines.
  11. (1 point) Ford production records consider 1965, not 64 ½, as the first model year for Mustangs.
  12. (5 points) In the best car chase scene of all-time, Steve McQueen in a Highland Green ‘68 Mustang Fastback duels the villains driving a black ’68 Dodge Charger R/T. An Eggshell white 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T (with 440ci engine) stars in Vanishing Point, although the car crashed into the bulldozers at the end is really a Camaro! Ferris Bueller drove a 1961 Ferrari 250GT California Spider (a Chevy-powered replica, actually) on his day off.
  13. (1 point) While Ferdinand and Ferry Porsche were friends of Adolph Hitler’s and served prison sentences for NAZI war crimes, it was a life-sized image of Henry Ford that appeared in the dictator’s office. Hitler credited Henry Ford’s contributions in transportation, technology and mass-production as the keys to America’s great surge in the early 1900s. In addition, Hitler’s anti-Jewish theories were largely based on “The International Jew,” a series of books written by Henry Ford charging that World War I and other events were masterminded by a large group of Jews conspiring to profit off of international misfortune.
  14. (1 point) The Crosley Hotshot won the Index of Performance at Sebring in 1951. The LeMay collection features a great example of a race-ready version of this tiny automobile.
  15. (1 point) “Widetrack” has never been more than an advertising campaign, with any difference in width between Pontiacs and GM platform-mates during the last 30-plus years being purely coincidental.
  16. (2 points) American companies only offered two production two-seaters in 1969: Chevrolet Corvette and AMC AMX.
  17. (1 point) A fire at Jaguar’s plant destroyed the production tooling for the XKSS, a street version of the D-Type, after only 16 cars.
  18. (1 point) Sean Connery was too tall for the two Toyota 2000GTs used in the film “You Only Live Twice,” so producers had the tops chopped off.
  19. (1 point) Packard’s slogan was “Ask the Man Who Owns One.”
  20. (1 point) When the suicide-door Lincoln Continental MKIII debuted in 1961, the frame was unable to support the car’s weight when all four doors were opened. The frame was reinforced for later model years.

So how do you stack up? There are 47 total points:

    0-5 points: Classic cars are fun, so start reading Sound Classics religiously and get out to car shows!
    5-15 points: You're a Chevy, Ford, Mopar, British or German car person, and you don't mingle with others
    16-25 points: You have a diverse range of trivia! Congrats.
    26-35: Wow, you know enough to work in the car biz.
    36-47: Send Apex your resume!

Sam Barer writes for Apex, an Olympia, WA based freelance writing company. To submit a car for a future “Sound Classics” story, email soundclassics@apexstrategy.com

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