Q: What was the first official White House car?

A: A 1909 White Steamer, ordered by President Taft.

Q: Who opened the first drive-in gas station? 

A: Gulf opened up the first station in Pittsburgh in 1913. 

Q: What city was the first to use parking meters? 

A: Oklahoma City , on July 16, 1935. 

Q: Where was the first drive-in restaurant? 

A: Royce Hailey’s Pig Stand opened in Dallas in 1921. 

Q: True or False? The 1953 Corvette came in white, red and black.

A: False. The 1953 ‘Vettes were available in one color, Polo White. 

Q: What was the first car fitted with an alternator, rather than a direct current dynamo?

A: The 1960 Plymouth Valiant 

Q: What was the first car to be offered with a “perpetual guarantee”? 

A: The 1904 Acme, from Reading , PA. Perpetuity was disturbing in this case, as Acme closed down in 1911.

Q: What car was the first to have its radio antenna embedded in the windshield?

A: The 1969 Pontiac Grand Prix.

Q: Where was the World’s first three-color traffic lights installed?

A: Detroit , Michigan in 1919. Two years later they experimented with synchronized lights.

Q: What type of car had the distinction of being GM’s 100 millionth car built in the U.S. ?

A: March 16, 1966 saw an Olds Toronado roll out of Lansing , Michigan with that honor.

Q: Where was the first drive-in movie theater opened, and when?

A: Camden , NJ in 1933 

Q: What autos were the first to use a standardized production key-start system? 

A: The 1949 Chryslers 

Q: What car was the first to place the horn button in the center of the steering wheel? 

A: The 1915 Scripps-Booth Model C. The car also was the first with electric door latches.

Q: What U.S. production car has the quickest 0-60 mph time?

A: The 1962 Chevrolet Impala SS 409. Did it in 4.0 seconds.

Q: What’s the only car to appear simultaneously on the covers of Time and Newsweek?

A: The Mustang

Q: What was the lowest priced mass produced American car? 

A: The 1925 Ford Model T Runabout. Cost $260, $5 less than 1924.

Q: What is the fastest internal-combustion American production car?

A: The 1998 Dodge Viper GETS-R, tested by Motor Trend magazine at 192.6 mph.

Q: Who wrote to Henry Ford, “I have drove fords exclusively when I could get away with one. It has got every other car skinned, and even if my business hasn’t been strictly legal it don’t hurt anything to tell you what a fine car you got in the V-8”?

A: Clyde Barrow (of Bonnie and Clyde ) in 1934. 

Q: What car was the first production V12, as well as the first production car with aluminum pistons?

A: The 1915 Packard Twin-Six. Used during WWI in Italy, these motors inspired Enzi Ferrari to adopt the V12 himself in 1948.

Q: What was the first car to use power operated seats? 

A: They were first used on the 1947 Packard line.

Q: Which of the Chrysler “letter cars” sold the fewest amount?

A: Only 400, 1963, 300J’s were sold (they skipped “I” because it looked like a number 1)

Q: When were seat belts first fitted to a motor vehicle?

A: In 1902, in a Baker Electric streamliner racer which crashed at 100 mph. on Staten Island !

Q: In January 1930 , Cadillac debuted it’s V16 in a car named for a theatrical version of a 1920’s film seen by Harley Earl while designing the body, What’s that name?

A: The “Madam X”, a custom coach designed by Earl and built by Fleetwood. The sedan featured a retractable landau top above the rear seat. 

Q: What is the Spirit of Ecstasy? 

A: The official name of the mascot of Rolls Royce, she is the lady on top of their radiators. Also known as “Nellie in her nighty.”

Q: Where did the name ” Pick UP Truck” come from?

Trivia…Ford, who made the first pick-up trucks, shipped them to dealers in crates, the new owners had to assemble ,using the crate , as the beds of the trucks. The new owners had to go to the dealers , to get them, thus , they had to :”pick-up” the trucks.And now you know the “rest of the story