How bout some trivia!

Post up a trivia question, then in 24 hours (or close to it) quote yourself and post up the answer! I'm going to start off Ford related, but they dont all have to be.

Everyone else try to guess the answer, but no internet searching, thats cheating! This is just a test of what obscure things you know!

Here is my opening trivia question is:

Question: "Where does the Ford Mustang get its name from?"

I'll post the answer in 24 hours and see if anyone else has answered it!

 

Lee Iacocca, the father of the Mustang, initiated a styling contest between divisions.

The Lincoln/Mercury division won the contest. The car they styled had a Cougar emblem in the grille, but Iacocca didn't want to use this name for his 'baby.'

Stylist John Najjar suggested Mustang, as he was a fan of the P-51 Mustang fighter plane.

 

Billl is going to hit most of these out of the park on the first swing!

The San Fernando Valley city of Runnymede had it's name changed to what and why?

 

Answer: The Ford Mustang gets its name from the legendary WWII plane, the P-51 Mustang.

 

Because "Runnymede" sounds like a excretory problem??

 

Powered by the Packard-Merlin engine...

 

I thought the Packard-Merlin was a marine engine used in PT boats, and the P-51 used the Rolls-Royce Merlin.

Oh well...that wasn't the question anyway

 

The P-51 first engine was an Allison V-1710. In early 1942, they went with the Rolls Royce Merlin 60 series. At the end of 1942, the Packard Merlin engine was born. This engine was installed in the P-51B. This new designed Mustang would now fly at 440+ mph and operate at 30,000 ft. Much faster and much higher then its previous motors.

I live in Watsonville, CA. Each yr we have the 'Antique Fly-In'. Some of the most incredible flying machines you can imagine. Each yr the mustangs come from all over the United States. INCREDIBLE aircraft, even in todays standards. I even got to sit in one some years back. Gave me goosebumps, but you can sure imagine the grin on my face.
Fritz

 

O and yes, the Packard-Merlin motor were also used in PT Boats. Twins I believe, even back than. Fast little suckers.

 

O and no, cuz both of y'all are mistaken...

The 3 V12 gasser engines installed in PT Boats were strictly a Packard design. Packard was known as master engine builders for the aircraft and marine industries for many years.

In 1940, Churchill approached FDR, asked him who in the US had the production capabilities to build Rolls Royce-Merlin engines (used in Spitfires and etc). FDR spoke with Henry Ford, who signed the contract.

But when FoMoCo's meager design staff looked at the blueprints, they passed, as they said it was too complicated an engine to be built on an assembly line.

Packard then contracted to build them and made so many changes, simplifying the design, that the engine is known as the Packard-Merlin.

The Liberty V12 aircraft engine used in WWI and beyond, was designed by Colonel Jesse Vincent, Packard's chief engineer. Both Packard and Lincoln built these engines during WWI.

Packard introduced the first V12 engine in 1915, calling it the Twin Six...installed in Packard motorcars thru 1923. A new Twin Six was introduced in 1932, Packard changed the name to Twelve in 1933.

Packard (1899-1956) had more innovations in the auto industry than any other company. Ford had next to none.

 

My trivia question for tonight:

Question: What is the normal pH level for human blood. And for extra credit, how much variance in blood pH can the body tolerate, before it starts causing problems.

 

Blood 7.4/Urine around 6.0
I check mine every so often. Try to keep it from getting too acidic.

 

Got it...thanks for correcting us

 

The Packard Merlin Engine Was built by License from Rolls Royce. There were two models the 1710V the allison built , and the 1650V merlin by rolls royce. The 1650V was what eventually powered the P51 after the US mechanics in WWII in England tried using the Merlin out of a Spitfire... the advantage it has over the underpowered Allison is twin sequential supercharger on the rear of the engine that corrected for high density altitude by force inducting air as we all know. The P51 was then redesigned for the Merlin 1650V with a slightly bigger radiator pod on the bottom, and the newer Bubble canopy, and reinforced Motor Mounts to handle the greater torque and horsepower. this newer model of P51 was the "D" variant.. the one that we all recognize today...

Packard V-1650 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Allison V-1710 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


I case you are wondering I volunteer at the planes of Fame museum in Chino CA from time to time, and I have had the opportunity to go up in a two place P51 D that is a custom built two seater... it is owned by the Collings foundation, it is an older B variant as I recall. Yes I got to fly it for bit.. but I found it to be very sluggish compared to a helicopter in it's handling characteristic.

 

The P-51 Mustang that crashed at the Reno Air Race had "Powered by Packard" painted on the fuselage, just in front of and below the canopy.

Way back when, there was a museum in Buena Park called 'Cars of the Stars and Planes of Fame.' The entire collection was owned by one person who rented vehicles/planes to movie studios.

The museum was an expensive "white elephant" from the get-go, never made any money. Eventually, the cars were sold off at auction (including Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle's custom bodied 1920 Pierce-Arrow).

Some/many (cannot recall) of the planes ended up in Chino.

Arbuckle's Pierce was built by Earl Coachworks of Los Angeles. Earl's son Harley, in 1928, was named head of GM's new Art & Colour (styling) Division.