geezer test....Tail fins

[menzies]

80%, a couple of good guess's.

[oldbike54]

46%, I feel dirty..

..cars suck anyway.

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

  Dusty

[Bill Hagan]

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

[clubman]

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.)

[190 Octane]

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.

[canuck750]

68% too young to recognize them Packard's and Desoto's ???

[Two Checks]

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.

[smdl]

96%.  Should a looked at the 4 Caddys  more carefully.

S

[RinkRat II]

 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:

[Turin]

I only got a 71. The GM stuff threw me, especially olds and Pontiac.

[pebra]

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.