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Hemmings Motor News has been around since 1954. We're proud of our heritage, but we're also more than the Hemmings full of classifieds that your father subscribed to. Aside from new editorial content every month in Hemmings, we have three monthly magazines: Hemmings Muscle Machines, Hemmings Classic Car and Hemmings Sports and Exotic Car.

While our editors traverse the country to find the best content for those magazines, we find other oddities related to the old-car hobby that we really had no place for - until now. With this blog, we're giving you a behind-the-scenes look at what we see and what we do during the course of putting out some of the finest automotive magazines you'll ever read.

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Test Your Knowledge of Automotive History (Part 1)

Posted October 07, 2008 12:01 AM by dstrohl

During the recent Hemmings Cruise, the staff gave a few seminars on the days when the ship was out to sea. One of the cruisers was Jim Hill from the Packard Source List who has been on several Hemmings cruises in the past. On our first day of seminars, Jim passed out a quiz on automotive history for everyone to take a crack at. The test had 41 questions and I assure you, nobody thought they were easy. Here are the first few:

1. What piece or part is found on almost every automobile and it will interchange and function on almost every other automobile?

2. What car company made engines for the 1945 Mustang?

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10/07/2008 2:07 PM

1) Battery cables

2) Packard

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10/08/2008 1:10 AM

Hello Bob:
Good answer on the battery cables, did you cheat?
G. I thought the first year the Mustang was 1964, and it had a Ford engine, just kidding.

The latter mustangs were powered by a Rolls-Royce Merlin engines, I'm too lazy to google , so I guess you're saying the Rolls Merlin engines were under license to Packard, for production in this country.

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10/08/2008 11:12 AM

Both are guesses, but I thought I had sear recently where one of the engines from the P51 was licensed to a smaller American automotive company. It could just as well have been Studebaker, or Nash.

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