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Title: geezer test....Tail fins
Post by: bacongrease on March 26, 2015, 08:13:38 AM

 How old are you?

  http://www.americantorque.com/game/tailfins/


 :+=copcar
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Post by: 56Pan on March 26, 2015, 08:41:53 AM
86%  Never was good on Packards.  Not enough of them around.
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Post by: charlie b on March 26, 2015, 08:45:40 AM
Only 71  Packards and desotos were not on my radar
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Post by: dilligaf on March 26, 2015, 08:57:23 AM
79% Lots of lucky guesses.  Thanks for posting.  :BEER:
Matt
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Post by: oldbike54 on March 26, 2015, 09:13:37 AM
Dang , 82% , and I am not a car guy  :D

  Dusty
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Post by: cj750 on March 26, 2015, 09:23:31 AM
100%.
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Post by: Chuck in Indiana on March 26, 2015, 09:26:17 AM
Pfffft. They said the 58 Studebaker was a rambler on the test I took..
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Post by: oldbike54 on March 26, 2015, 09:47:16 AM
100%.

 Well of course  ;-T

  Dusty
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Post by: Penderic on March 26, 2015, 10:06:29 AM
Another test!  **C

(http://i1299.photobucket.com/albums/ag77/Penderic/Dutch%20Driving%20Test%202_zps1khntc8p.jpg)
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Post by: Carlo DeSantis on March 26, 2015, 10:17:54 AM
Pfffft. They said the 58 Studebaker was a rambler on the test I took..

I kinda thought one of those was mislabeled.

I got 96% (mistook a Chrysler and a DeSoto).

Best,

Carlo (definitely a geezer)
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Post by: ken farr on March 26, 2015, 10:27:49 AM
Heck, I managed a 91%, now if I could only do that on stuff that mattered...... ::)


kjf
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Post by: Dilliw on March 26, 2015, 10:30:41 AM
58%.  I must be a young'n :BEER:
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Post by: cj750 on March 26, 2015, 10:50:14 AM
Pfffft. They said the 58 Studebaker was a rambler on the test I took..

Hmmm. Are there different versions for different takers? The '58 Rambler and '58 Studebaker were correctly identified as such on the version I got.
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Post by: LowRyter on March 26, 2015, 11:02:31 AM
93%  got the 61 & 62 Caddy reversed and missed the Lincoln and the Packard. 
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Post by: bacongrease on March 26, 2015, 11:15:30 AM
 80%...hell, I thought I was good...but apparently,  I was not.

But of course I nailed all the Chevys and Fords, I probably owned one of each at one time, drove 'em like I stole them.

 Red  '68 RS/SS Camaro also, which I sold for $650 and glad to get rid of it.  Paid $1500 and put 90K on it.
Sold A 56 Merc coup for $50.00 at 100K.  I was the second owner, paid $150 for it.
Hemis were cheep at one time.
Delaware & Ottawa Co.  Okla.
O well....
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Post by: davevv on March 26, 2015, 11:24:55 AM
96%  had the Lincoln and Packard wrong.
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Post by: ohiorider on March 26, 2015, 12:09:59 PM
93%.  Shudda done so well in high school!  Maybe I was too interested in cars(?)
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Post by: Sasquatch Jim on March 26, 2015, 01:22:38 PM
 88 %  Gave my memory a hernia.
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Post by: V7Record on March 26, 2015, 03:13:37 PM
88%, I'll take it.
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Post by: ibis1 on March 26, 2015, 05:50:46 PM
93% Mixed up a 4 cars. Better than I thought I would do.
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Post by: rboe on March 26, 2015, 06:07:46 PM
64% Kinda before my time......
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Post by: Madtownguzzi on March 26, 2015, 06:29:11 PM
86% totally blew the Caddy tail fin years and blew the 59/60 fords. I was a GM guy growing up as my dad had a 1956 Super 88 Olds and a 51 and 53 Chevy.
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Post by: 190 Octane on March 26, 2015, 06:35:58 PM
77%

Not bad for someone still in his 30's.  I am a little disappointed in myself, considering I own a 58 Plymouth, but at least I got all the Mopars correct.
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Post by: Chuck in Indiana on March 26, 2015, 06:38:38 PM
I kinda thought one of those was mislabeled.

I got 96% (mistook a Chrysler and a DeSoto).

Best,

Carlo (definitely a geezer)

Hell, I had a 57 hawk. It was my first car. I wasn't about to miss that identification of a 58 Studebaker, but they called a Rambler. Dorcia and I looked at each other and said WTF?? Of course, she wouldn't say that.. but that was the end of the test for me. (us) She's the car guy in the family.
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Post by: mgfan on March 26, 2015, 07:39:40 PM
That was fun. Line up a bunch of the new eggs and see if anyone can identify them in 60 years. Betcha not   :BEER:
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Post by: cj750 on March 26, 2015, 07:52:05 PM
77%

Not bad for someone still in his 30's.  I am a little disappointed in myself, considering I own a 58 Plymouth, but at least I got all the Mopars correct.

We need pictures!
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Post by: Tom on March 26, 2015, 10:39:08 PM
Only got the Chevy's right.  Way less than you guys.
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Post by: 190 Octane on March 27, 2015, 01:02:24 PM
We need pictures!
Not the greatest pictures.

(http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/media/p1010601.102338/full?d=1399637291)

(http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/media/p1010557.102336/full?d=1399637288)

I need to start working on it, but I haven't finished with this one yet.
(http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/media/img0079.81537/full?d=1399636212)
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Post by: cj750 on March 27, 2015, 05:23:01 PM

Kewl. '58 Plymouths aren't exactly common, but you never see the wagon versions. Neat project! I like the '65 as well. I owned a '64 F100 several years ago. Great truck, pretty much indestructible, but with a 240-inch six and three-on-the-tree, was definitely not a hot rod. Actually handled OK for a truck, but the '65 and newer trucks like yours, with the twin I-beam front suspension, have a much better ride.
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Post by: tazio on March 27, 2015, 05:48:33 PM
46%, I feel dirty..

..cars suck anyway.
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Post by: menzies on March 27, 2015, 05:53:24 PM
80%, a couple of good guess's.
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Post by: oldbike54 on March 27, 2015, 05:57:33 PM
46%, I feel dirty..

..cars suck anyway.

 Ha ! Most of my 82 % was done by looking at the bumpers  :D

  Dusty
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Post by: Bill Hagan on March 27, 2015, 06:04:39 PM
100%.

 :bow

93% (52 right out of 56).

Screwed up in a couple of the Fords and Packards.

I should have done better on those as in a couple of the formers, you could take the second word out of my first sentence.   ;)

Bill

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Post by: clubman on March 27, 2015, 06:17:47 PM
46%, I feel dirty..

..cars suck anyway.

 :+1 I got 70% --purely luck, cars are good for getting you back and forth to work and that's about it. Otherwise they suck (unless you can afford a Ford GT or a Ferrari or etc. etc.)
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Post by: 190 Octane on March 27, 2015, 06:36:04 PM
Kewl. '58 Plymouths aren't exactly common, but you never see the wagon versions. Neat project! I like the '65 as well. I owned a '64 F100 several years ago. Great truck, pretty much indestructible, but with a 240-inch six and three-on-the-tree, was definitely not a hot rod. Actually handled OK for a truck, but the '65 and newer trucks like yours, with the twin I-beam front suspension, have a much better ride.

You see even less of the 2-door wagons.  Its got a 440 I'm planing to rebuild and put some sort of overdrive behind.  I really want to make it something I can drive cross country in when I'm done.  I'm going to a late 50's early 60's mild custom vibe with it.

The 65 has disk breaks and power steering we swapped in from a late 70's model.  That is one thing nice about the twin I-beam trucks, parts swap up to the end of the 70's.  After I added front and rear sway bars and KYB shocks it holds the road pretty well.  It has a roller 302 now and aluminium heads.  Its developed a knock that we can't find without tearing the engine down.  I'm thinking of buying a 331 short block for it. 

My brother-in-law picked up a 65 Ranchero that's will eventually to be my niece's first car.  She's only two now, but we work slow.  So, I'm thinking of giving the 302 to him for the Ranchero.
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Post by: canuck750 on March 27, 2015, 08:29:53 PM
68% too young to recognize them Packard's and Desoto's ???
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Post by: Two Checks on March 28, 2015, 08:35:11 AM
Man, the MoPar wagon brings back memories! We had a locker room green 57 Savoy and then a 59 Fury,white over Chinese Red. Cool old cars. The "Forward Look. Suddenly it's 1960!" Was the ad in 1957 whe the new body style hit the scene. Unfortunately they were rushed into production and suffered multitudes of quality problems.
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Post by: smdl on March 28, 2015, 09:05:27 AM
96%.  Should a looked at the 4 Caddys  more carefully.

S
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Post by: RinkRat II on March 28, 2015, 09:31:38 AM
 That was fun  ;-T 100% . I probably have an unfair advantage, The Buick Olds and Pontiac plant in So.Cal was about six blocks away from my house as a kid. Got to see all the shiny new ones roll off the line. Open houses were great, seeing how they were assembled and then just driven off the line onto awaiting rail cars. By the way I still have my first car, "Forward Look" 1957 Dodge 2dr Coronet with the D500 Hemi. Good luck on your project 190Octane..if you need any info let me know.

     Paul B :BEER:
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Post by: Turin on March 28, 2015, 03:28:25 PM
I only got a 71. The GM stuff threw me, especially olds and Pontiac.

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Post by: pebra on March 29, 2015, 05:35:37 AM
I'm old enough, but 36 %   :o
Got the Fords and the independts all correct though, of course those are among my specialities ......  ;)
I should know enough about statistics to be able to say whether the score is better of worse than pure random, but what the heck.....

My father had a pre-war Terraplane that he sold to buy a pretty new Hillman Minx Californian in 1954  -  think of that as a bit symptomatic. I believe American car exports to Europe more or less collapsed around 1950, so I didn't stand a chance to recognise most of the cars in the test. Didn't even know they made De Soto that long.