ewenm Posted September 26, 2003 Share Posted September 26, 2003 3. That AC1 grey box-like thing from Germany 70118 miles and counting... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tony pashley Posted September 26, 2003 Author Share Posted September 26, 2003 ... and came from a major car manufacturer... tony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
La vache espagnole Posted September 26, 2003 Share Posted September 26, 2003 Hmm... Renault Sport Spider (or whatever it was called) 🤔 I saw one the other week in an office car park ... errr, somewhere. I reckon it looked damn good actually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tony pashley Posted September 26, 2003 Author Share Posted September 26, 2003 Ta-daaaaa!! I think their main beef was it was grossly overweight, crude and didn't really live up to hype. Actually I think it looked pretty cool too! So to recap: 1) run anticlockwise 2) Senna's burial spot 3) Renault Spider thingy Do you like this sort of stuff? tony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewenm Posted September 26, 2003 Share Posted September 26, 2003 Please sir, can we have some more motoring trivia questions 🤔 😬 70118 miles and counting... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisb Posted September 26, 2003 Share Posted September 26, 2003 ☹️ Didn't get any of them. Oh well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
La vache espagnole Posted September 26, 2003 Share Posted September 26, 2003 Cool More tests please ❗ That should stop Them Upstairs accusing us of misusing the Test Area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Brother Posted September 26, 2003 Share Posted September 26, 2003 I hope Eric doesn't find this post We wouldn't have a chance 😬 😬 😬 Steve Se7en-Up! Honk if U flash! If you see a speed camera - HONK your horn to alert other road users they are approaching an accident blackspot! Together we can make a difference 😬 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FH Posted September 26, 2003 Share Posted September 26, 2003 Well, we'll just have to ask Mr Pashlee to compose questions that don't have anything to do with Eric's fave subjects Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Brother Posted September 26, 2003 Share Posted September 26, 2003 No cars, motor racing or anything to do with flying 😬 I think Eric should set some questions Steve Se7en-Up! Honk if U flash! If you see a speed camera - HONK your horn to alert other road users they are approaching an accident blackspot! Together we can make a difference 😬 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewenm Posted September 26, 2003 Share Posted September 26, 2003 Eric's questions would be a good test of the useful ness of the internet - can the answers be found in a sensible amount of time 🤔 😬 70118 miles and counting... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tony pashley Posted September 26, 2003 Author Share Posted September 26, 2003 For many years I've written a quiz for the Surrey Area Xmas do... in recent years they've had less and less motorsport content to reflect the broad interests of members and partners. In those, I always tried to do it so that some of the questions had a clue or a hint woven into them, but it doesn't always work. An endless test of obscure facts gets a little dull, after all! I suppose writing a quiz is a little like compiling a cryptic crossword - the aim should be to put up a good close fight, but then lose gracefully. On motorsport, I think Eric and I would drive each other bonkers with questions - (we both frequent the Atlas 'Nostalgia Forum' )... (I couldn't hope to match him on aviation or many other things...). So, since he hasn't arrived yet, here's some more motoring stuff: 4) What is the connection between Monza, Suzuka, Hämeenlinna (a circuit in Finland) and my first Scalextric set? 5) What mechanical idiosyncrasy would you find on both a Citroën Xantia and an Alfasud? 6) Which current Grand Prix driver was christened in honour of a '70s motorcycling star of a very different nationality? tony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FH Posted September 27, 2003 Share Posted September 27, 2003 Back to I need a BLAT before answering these 😬 FH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric McLoughlin Posted September 28, 2003 Share Posted September 28, 2003 I've been otherwise occupied most of the week - at "Cabaret" (with at least three Phoenix atendees turning up in the audience - well done chaps and chapesses). Now, to the matters in question - 4. - well, if it was anything like MY first Scalextric set, was it that they all feature crossovers (supported by two carboard brick effect ramparts sporting Shell banners in the case of Scalextric)? Tony, yours wasnt Set 50 by any chance? 5. - a guess, non-cancelling winndscreen wipers? 6. - Jarno Trulli (after some Finnish chap who was killed at Monza called Jarno Something Unpronounceable). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tony pashley Posted September 28, 2003 Author Share Posted September 28, 2003 Well, it was only a matter of time...! Hi, Eric - hope the show went well. 1) Yes, yes and yes (with a green Lotus ''25-ish'' and a red thing purporting to be a Cooper). 2) No, it's not something one might describe as a defficiency, just a less-normal way of doing things. 3) Yes - Jarno Sariinen (or Saarinen, or Sa...) - his Dad was a bike fan who was hugely inpressed by seeing him race. I think he broke the outright bike record at Monza on a 250, or some similar epic feat. Died young. Ok, so it's harder questions in future! :-) tony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scooby dooby doo Posted September 29, 2003 Share Posted September 29, 2003 love this sort of quiz I got the anticlockwise one from the clue you gave after my first attempt but before i saw the answer from meldrew. here's some more... 7) What did Peugeot have to do with the design of most Honda engines 🤔 8) what is a 'wobbly' wheel 🤔 9) what is a 'birdcage' 🤔 HOOPY R706KGU Hoopylight R Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tony pashley Posted September 29, 2003 Author Share Posted September 29, 2003 7) Dunno this one... did they 'invent' variable valve timing or something (hard to imagine there's something that Alfa didn't do before the war!) 8) Is this the 'wobbly web'? That emulated the shape that would be created if the circle was created by bending a continuous strip of metal, riding up into the 'waves' to take up the excess material. It gives a wheel which is rigid, has huge strength t the hub. A bit of a 'trade mark' feature on early Lotus racecars but seen on others too. 9) A Maserati T51? No, wrong number maybe... anyway the sports racer with the hugely complex spaceframe of very fine tubes (I was going to send you pic of one later in the week...!) How we doing with Number 5? tony Edited by - tony pashley on 29 Sep 2003 19:15:40 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tony pashley Posted September 29, 2003 Author Share Posted September 29, 2003 T61 ? tony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Whitley Posted September 29, 2003 Share Posted September 29, 2003 5) Inboard discs 🤔 (that don't work when it's wet in the case of my long-departed Alfasud). 4 (supplemental) What material was the track of my first Scalextric track made from? Tony M1 7 SMW 1.4SS Lotus colours with cycle wings. Mem.No. 10376 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric McLoughlin Posted September 29, 2003 Share Posted September 29, 2003 I think the T61 AND T62 were both "Birdcage" Maseratis. I reckon you must have had one of the early rubber Scalextric tracks then. I'd love a set of yellow "Wobbly Webs" for my Seven. They can be obtained but at a cost of about £400 each! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevSull Too Posted September 29, 2003 Share Posted September 29, 2003 4 (supplemental) I know Tony, you sad bloke! 😬You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same. 😬 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Whitley Posted September 29, 2003 Share Posted September 29, 2003 4 (superplemental 'cos the other was obviously too easy) What cars did it have 🤔 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric McLoughlin Posted September 29, 2003 Share Posted September 29, 2003 Two wind up tin plate D Types? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tony pashley Posted September 29, 2003 Author Share Posted September 29, 2003 I had a Lotus 16 too. Not sure what became of it. (I'm not sure I really appreciated it at the time.) tony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tony pashley Posted September 29, 2003 Author Share Posted September 29, 2003 I've also seen a T60 referred to as a Birdcage - but I'm not really sure what a T60 is, and the pics I've seen don't show enough to discern how different it is from 61 (or 62). No doubt there are many web-pages and cyber-shrines devoted to Masers... not a passion of mine really but they are nice things to behold... tony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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