off topic (cars in general) trivia

[ford38v8]

Automobile trivia questions.... I'll start:

What American automobile sported a banjo steering wheel in 1937, and has employed tail lights of basically the same similar shape ever since? (trick question)


EDIT major clue: Make that tail lights and/or housings.

 

[37 Coupe]

Automobile trivia questions.... I'll start:

What American automobile sported a banjo steering wheel in 1937, and has employed tail lights of basically the same similar shape ever since? (trick question)


EDIT major clue: Make that tail lights and/or housings.

Hitlers peoples car? Not American except Henry Ford inspired wheels.

 

[ford38v8]

Hitlers peoples car? Not American except Henry Ford inspired wheels.

Nope. There’s no “almost” correct answer.

 

[petehoovie]

Pierce-Arrow

 

[ford38v8]

Pierce-Arrow

Read my lips: “…ever since”.

 

[ford38v8]

Hitlers peoples car? Not American except Henry Ford inspired wheels.

Nope. There’s no “almost” correct answer.

 

[Lanny]

Cord



.

 

[ford38v8]

Cord



.

Again, I said “ever since”.

 

[petehoovie]

Cadillac

 

[deuce_roadster]

Bucky Fuller's Dymixion (Saw one at the Henry Ford museum) Make that Dymaxion!

 

[ford38v8]

Cadillac

Winner winner chicken dinner!

 

[petehoovie]

Bucky Fuller's Dymixion (Saw one at the Henry Ford museum)

 

[tubman]

I must be dense. Explain the taillight thing to me. Consider the difference between a '59 Cadillac and a '60, for instance.

 

[ford38v8]

I must be dense. Explain the taillight thing to me. Consider the difference between a '59 Cadillac and a '60, for instance.

Good point, here's the explanation:
1957, '58, & '59 had dual bullets for lenses, BUT, retained the vertical shape in the fin which began before 1937 with a bullet lens, thereafter with vertical lenses but for those 3 years listed. The Art Deco tail light stand of 1936 had evolved to a vertical lens in the stand in 1937, thence to the iconic tail fin of 1949. The fin remained throughout until 2000, and but for the 1980 Seville, the vertical tail light remains today. The banjo steering wheel was very similar to the Ford wheel of that same era.

 

[tubman]

Good point, here's the explanation:
1957, '58, & '59 had dual bullets for lenses, BUT, retained the vertical shape in the fin which began before 1937 with a bullet lens, thereafter with vertical lenses but for those 3 years listed. The Art Deco tail light stand of 1936 had evolved to a vertical lens in the stand in 1937, thence to the iconic tail fin of 1949. The fin remained throughout until 2000, and but for the 1980 Seville, the vertical tail light remains today. The banjo steering wheel was very similar to the Ford wheel of that same era.

Sorry, I don't buy the taillight explanation at all. Take a look at the pictures I posted again and tell me with a straight face that they are in any way similar..

 

[ford38v8]

All Cadillacs with exception of the 1980 Seville had vertical lens, fins, or both.

 

[petehoovie]

1937 CADILLAC

 

[tubman]

That doesn't look even remotely like either one of the pictures I posted.

 

[Karl Wescott]

Detroit Automobile Company 1899-1900 reorganized as Henry Ford Company 1901-1902, reorganized as Cadilliac Automobile Company 1903-1909, sold to General Motors and became Cadilliac Division of GM.

 

[ford38v8]

Cadillac

Pete's a better go-to researcher than Chatgtp! After multiple clues given to Chat, it never even got close. Chat's "final answers" were, in this order:
Ford
Packard
Buick
Chrysler (and DeSoto)
Chevrolet
Corvette
Packard (once again)
Buick (once again)

Chat never did get the answer, it kept giving incorrect reasons why it chose this or that car. I had to give it up in the end. Shows how unreliable AI is.