OK JC, Another Automotive Trivia Question!

Tires ?

 

[Iron Woode]

Originally posted by: Roger
Tires ?

LOL.

Ok I will answer it:

Hi Way Hi Fi.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Damn, I was about to guess "good gas milage"

 

What manufacturer designed and built a copper air cooled engine, put the vehicle into production and then recalled them all and dumped them into the great lakes ?

 

[JC]

Originally posted by: Iron Woode

Originally posted by: JC

Originally posted by: Pacfanweb
How about this one: What year was the last year that a GM "sports car" or "pony car" had an engine larger than 400 CID?

Trans Am, with the Olds 403, 1980?

Probably.

What was so unusual about the 6.6L TAs from 1979-80?

The cars that said '6.6L' on the scoop had the Olds 403. The ones that said 'T/A 6.6' had the Pontiac 400.

 

[JC]

Originally posted by: Roger
What manufacturer designed and built a copper air cooled engine, put the vehicle into production and then recalled them all and dumped them into the great lakes ?

Wasn't that Chevrolet?

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Roger: Chevrolet in the 20's

 

BINGO !

The engines had copper cylinder liners, they would start to errode as soon as you started them up


That's it for me guys, I have to get back to work.

 

[Iron Woode]

Originally posted by: JC

Originally posted by: Iron Woode

Originally posted by: JC

Originally posted by: Pacfanweb
How about this one: What year was the last year that a GM "sports car" or "pony car" had an engine larger than 400 CID?

Trans Am, with the Olds 403, 1980?

Probably.

What was so unusual about the 6.6L TAs from 1979-80?

The cars that said '6.6L' on the scoop had the Olds 403. The ones that said 'T/A 6.6' had the Pontiac 400.

close, but not quite.

TA's with automatics got the Olds 403. 4 speeds got the 400 pontiac.

 

[Pacfanweb]

Originally posted by: Iron Woode

Originally posted by: JC

Originally posted by: Iron Woode

Originally posted by: JC

Originally posted by: Pacfanweb
How about this one: What year was the last year that a GM "sports car" or "pony car" had an engine larger than 400 CID?

Trans Am, with the Olds 403, 1980?

Probably.

What was so unusual about the 6.6L TAs from 1979-80?

The cars that said '6.6L' on the scoop had the Olds 403. The ones that said 'T/A 6.6' had the Pontiac 400.

close, but not quite.

TA's with automatics got the Olds 403. 4 speeds got the 400 pontiac.

That is true for 1979 only. It is also true that T/A 6.6 meant 400, and 6.6 litre meant 403, but again, only for 1979.
There was no 6.6 in 1980. 1979 was the end of the line.

In '77 and '78, there were 3 engines, 2 400's, and the 403.
If you had one of these with T/A 6.6 on the shaker, that meant you had an engine with a hotter cam, and a bit more power.
These were available with sticks or automatics.
If you had 6.6 litre on the shaker, you would either get a standard 400 or the 403. The regular 400 was also available with a stick or auto, the 403 was never made with anything but an automatic.

 

[Iron Woode]

Originally posted by: Pacfanweb

Originally posted by: Iron Woode

Originally posted by: JC

Originally posted by: Iron Woode

Originally posted by: JC

Originally posted by: Pacfanweb
How about this one: What year was the last year that a GM "sports car" or "pony car" had an engine larger than 400 CID?

Trans Am, with the Olds 403, 1980?

Probably.

What was so unusual about the 6.6L TAs from 1979-80?

The cars that said '6.6L' on the scoop had the Olds 403. The ones that said 'T/A 6.6' had the Pontiac 400.

close, but not quite.

TA's with automatics got the Olds 403. 4 speeds got the 400 pontiac.

That is true for 1979 only. It is also true that T/A 6.6 meant 400, and 6.6 litre meant 403, but again, only for 1979.
There was no 6.6 in 1980. 1979 was the end of the line.

In '77 and '78, there were 3 engines, 2 400's, and the 403.
If you had one of these with T/A 6.6 on the shaker, that meant you had an engine with a hotter cam, and a bit more power.
These were available with sticks or automatics.
If you had 6.6 litre on the shaker, you would either get a standard 400 or the 403. The regular 400 was also available with a stick or auto, the 403 was never made with anything but an automatic.

my bad!

 

[Pacfanweb]

Originally posted by: Iron Woode

Originally posted by: Pacfanweb

Originally posted by: Iron Woode

Originally posted by: JC

Originally posted by: Iron Woode

Originally posted by: JC

Originally posted by: Pacfanweb
How about this one: What year was the last year that a GM "sports car" or "pony car" had an engine larger than 400 CID?

Trans Am, with the Olds 403, 1980?

Probably.

What was so unusual about the 6.6L TAs from 1979-80?

The cars that said '6.6L' on the scoop had the Olds 403. The ones that said 'T/A 6.6' had the Pontiac 400.

close, but not quite.

TA's with automatics got the Olds 403. 4 speeds got the 400 pontiac.

That is true for 1979 only. It is also true that T/A 6.6 meant 400, and 6.6 litre meant 403, but again, only for 1979.
There was no 6.6 in 1980. 1979 was the end of the line.

In '77 and '78, there were 3 engines, 2 400's, and the 403.
If you had one of these with T/A 6.6 on the shaker, that meant you had an engine with a hotter cam, and a bit more power.
These were available with sticks or automatics.
If you had 6.6 litre on the shaker, you would either get a standard 400 or the 403. The regular 400 was also available with a stick or auto, the 403 was never made with anything but an automatic.

my bad!

Dude, you know your stuff regarding automotive, that much is obvious. But Trans Am's, particularly 70-81 and even more particularly about 76-81 are cars I fell in love with as a 12 year old, whose dad happened to be body shop manager at a Pontiac dealership. I pretty much spent the summers up there working on the cars he had as side jobs, wrecks he bought to rebuild and sell. Lots of them were T/A's. He bought my mom a brand new '77 T/A Special Edition, t-tops, everything exactly like the Smokey and the Bandit T/A.....after the movie came out, they started calling them Bandit Editions. Wish we had kept that car.
I still have my old '76 body, and hope to get it back on the road in the next couple of years.
I still think they were the best looking pony cars ever.

 

[Iron Woode]

I am just not up on TAs.

Although I really like the mid to late 70's mopars. I own a 1979 Lebaron medallion 2 door with the A07 Spring Sport Special option which is apparently 1 of 1200 built.

But this Pontiac stuff has inspired a new trivia question to be posted shortly.