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Car Show Game - 1950s Sunday Car Quiz
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Posted on 12/30/2012 8:29:16 PM PST by virgil283

"Identify these old cars...The AVERAGE score is 73%"....I made 88%, Mercs and Hudsons threw me off...Plus I never saw a Kaiser before...

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1 posted on 12/30/2012 8:29:26 PM PST by virgil283
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To: virgil283

43yo woman gets 88%. Without reviews of Internet.

I love old American cars. Real cars.


2 posted on 12/30/2012 8:41:48 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: virgil283

That’s a DeSoto.


3 posted on 12/30/2012 8:42:10 PM PST by citizen (We get the government we choose. America either voted for Obama or handed it to him by not voting.)
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You got 88% (42 right out of 48). The average score is 73%. I drove some of those cars in the '50s.
4 posted on 12/30/2012 8:49:08 PM PST by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: virgil283

38 out of 48 for 79%

Those classics are easier to recognize than most vehicles of the last 3 decades. lol


5 posted on 12/30/2012 8:49:39 PM PST by TomGuy
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96% but my fat fingers screwed up two entries which I knew. Pretty old cars.
6 posted on 12/30/2012 8:51:30 PM PST by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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To: virgil283

Tough but fun quiz. 71% here.


7 posted on 12/30/2012 8:54:04 PM PST by Yardstick
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To: latina4dubya

ping


8 posted on 12/30/2012 8:55:09 PM PST by latina4dubya ( self-proclaimed tequila snob)
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To: virgil283

85% for me: better than I expected.


9 posted on 12/30/2012 8:56:54 PM PST by Standing Wolf
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To: virgil283

I got 77%


10 posted on 12/30/2012 9:02:52 PM PST by RAWGUY
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To: virgil283

79%

I wiped out on these:

DeSoto Custom
Henry J
Kaiser Manhattan
Willys Aero Wing


11 posted on 12/30/2012 9:06:49 PM PST by smoothsailing
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To: virgil283

You got 94% (45 right out of 48). The average score is 73%.


12 posted on 12/30/2012 9:07:18 PM PST by umgud (No Rats, No Rino's)
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To: smoothsailing

The only reason I knew the Henry J was that hotrodders wanted them. They were cheap, lightweight, and had lots of room under the hood. Plus they were kinda ugly so once you saw one it stuck.


13 posted on 12/30/2012 9:14:00 PM PST by virgil283 ( "He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy)
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To: TomGuy

You are right, they ARE easier to recognize, precisely because the designs were so different and individual from one maker to the next.The 50s saw an explosion of automotive styling, and some of these cars date to my earliest years of life. I got 75% , and in several of these groups , got four out of four (seemed like about 7 times for that)


14 posted on 12/30/2012 9:15:30 PM PST by supremedoctrine
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To: virgil283

96%. Confused mid-fifties Dodge and Plymouth on one section, so I missed two.

De Soto produced some beautiful cars from ‘55 to ‘59, it’s surprising that the marque was eliminated. Many of them were actually better looking than the more costly Chrysler of the same vintage.

Prettiest of them all was the step-down Hudson, though. Always loved those, very sleek and clean, the best of the immediate postwar designs. Roomy and fast, too. Many NASCAR drivers drove them in the early years, police did as well.

There’s an improbable hotrod I see out and about on my commute occasionally, a two-door Nash station wagon, turquiose and white with old fashioned American mags. It looks really good, surprisingly. Profile of the roofline is much like the ‘55 Chevy Nomad two door wagon. The ungainly look of the wheelwells is gone when lowered and filled with some serious wheels and rubber. Great looking car, never would have thought, lol.


15 posted on 12/30/2012 9:23:10 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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I’m an old car nut....got 48 out of 48 but admit having to guess at the year on a couple of the Mercurys. The rest of the quiz was easy since I have ridden in all but a few of the cars including the Henry J.


16 posted on 12/30/2012 9:24:27 PM PST by Ben Hecks
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To: virgil283

79%


17 posted on 12/30/2012 9:30:45 PM PST by VMI70
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77% and I’m a Car Guy, or at least I thought I was...

Hanging my head in shame.


18 posted on 12/30/2012 9:35:17 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (I don't Trust a Government that doesn't Trust me. How about you Comrade?)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

You got 92% (44 right out of 48). The average score is 73%


19 posted on 12/30/2012 9:46:34 PM PST by NY Attitude (Make love not war but be prepared for either.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

I got 73%...the average.


20 posted on 12/30/2012 9:49:29 PM PST by blam
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