Just For Fun

[daugen]

Test Your Knowledge of the Most Classic American Cars Ever Made

I thought this test was awfully easy but then I got my license in the 60's. They say 80 percent of US males can't get this test totally right.
I guess millennials are all driving Priii.

Lot of better muscle cars than these. Harder test would have shown an L88 Corvette among regular models, or a GNX next to a GS, something you really
had to look at. Always fun to look at these cars though.
And all those cars we should have kept which would be worth 50-100 grand today.
like my many ownered 1964 Porsche 356SC which I bought and sold in the three thousand dollar range forty years ago.

If any of you kept something really neat from way back when, hope you will show some pics.
Enjoy

 

[Bird]

One of my brothers sent me this link awhile back and I think I missed 2. Cars used to be so distinctive, but now they all look alike (to me, at least). Of course I worked, as a teenager, in my Dad's service station and auto parts store. So when I became a police officer in 1964, I could tell you the make, and probably the year, of nearly every vehicle seen on the streets. Not anymore.

 

[murph1]

24 out of 24. That test was way too easy.

 

[Gem99ultra]

Way too easy, unless you're younger than 40. 24/24.

 

[k0ua]

I got 24 of 24 right
Excellent! You put the pedal to the metal and aced this quiz!

As said too easy for us old "elder fossils"

 

[oosik]

Makes me feel old when they say early '60's is classic.

 

[Gary Fowler]

One of my brothers sent me this link awhile back and I think I missed 2. Cars used to be so distinctive, but now they all look alike (to me, at least). Of course I worked, as a teenager, in my Dad's service station and auto parts store. So when I became a police officer in 1964, I could tell you the make, and probably the year, of nearly every vehicle seen on the streets. Not anymore.

X2. Same score. Todays cars all look alike. I have a 2003 SUV that isn't any different from the 2017 in body styles and some cars I have seen have no identifying manufacturing logo on them which is really weird( unless owners took them off).

 

[daugen]

one of those firebirds looked too new for the age they gave but?

most of my friends in high school had 442's, GTO's, 396 Chevelles
Even back then keeping up (or surpassing....) the Jones had become important.
Not in our house, my Father had zero interest in cars and we had low end cars for years, he only bought something nice to
please my mother. His car went to the train station and sat, old beater Chevrolets.

I can imagine how important it was for Bird to be able to say it was a 2 tone green Dodge Coronet instead of a green big four door...
And oh the police cars back then, the big Fords and Chryslers. Remember when you always checked to see if you could sneak the "police package" in on
your new car?...

 

[PJSprog]

Missed one. Picked the wrong Camero package.

 

[rustyshakelford]

I’m 33, got 24/24. Way to easy

Brett

 

[cat fever]

Piece of cake! Got all 24 :thumbsup:

 

[daugen]

Missed one. Picked the wrong Camero package.

am guessing the drag one? yeah, fat slicks hiding in the back

this really could be a much better quiz...needs to be much harder, for most of us.
Though I really am curious how a current day 18 year old would do with this.
Today it's all about trucks. Or public transportation or EV in the cities.
Seems half the young Southern guys here locally expect to encounter
Baja conditions on the way to the grocery store...

The truck was jacked up officer.
Do you mean a front lift or a rear lift or the new look ?
Say what?
I think vehicle ID has gotten tougher.
I bet law enforcement would love to have electronic scan read info on every vehicle.
Like large ships and planes have. AIS. Automatic Identification System.
but I can hear the howls of civil rights folks on that one.

I really don't need AIS for a Goat or a Judge...

 

[daugen]

If you look carefully on YouTube, you can find huge classic car clubs in Europe. They love our old iron.
With crazy large engines in them.
Lot of Scandinavians are into these cars too. Some very serious motorheads all around the world.
So I wouldn't assume an Australian for example couldn't ace this quiz. And we would flunk on their Holdens...

 

[PJSprog]

am guessing the drag one? yeah, fat slicks hiding in the back

No, got that one right. It was the '69 Camero vs 70 Camero Pro Touring ... I picked the Touring.

Everything else was too easy.

 

[bcp]

Makes me feel old when they say early '60's is classic.

Does that mean we are classics, too?

Bruce

 

[dodge man]

It was pretty easy. I owned both a 70 Road Runner and a 70 Challenger at different times. I've been into those cars for a while.

 

[scaredychicken]

Easy Peasy - especially wtih multiple choice. Somebody likes the Vette

I currently have a 1964 El Camino Classic, and a 1981 El Camino Royal Knight SS

 

[Jim Shooz]

17/24 but most of those cars never made it out here. High import duties. lack of overseas funds, and left hand drive were the killer.

 

[daugen]

17/24 but most of those cars never made it out here. High import duties. lack of overseas funds, and left hand drive were the killer.

Were your cars the same side drive as Australia's? Hope so...
I'm not aware of any auto industry in your country, assuming imports.
Guessing Japanese and Australian to begin with, other than Land Rovers?
Any European Fords?
Growing up on an island has to be different. And a very large beautiful one too.

 

[George2615]

Same here, 24 out of 24. Too easy and I agree with Bird about today's cars all look alike.
Had the test been about cars of the past 10-20 years I'd have probably failed.