Q 01/05

The Antique Automobile Club of America defines an antique car as being at least how old?

A) 10 years

B) 25 years

C) 50 years

D) 100 years

Answer · why

B) 25 years

25 years. The club once froze its classes at a fixed 1935 cutoff, then switched in 1975 to a rolling rule, so another model year of cars turns antique...

Q 02/05

The Classic Car Club of America lists only 'fine' or 'distinctive' cars built from 1915 to 1948; which car makes the list?

A) Ford Model T

B) Cadillac V-16

C) Chevrolet Corvette

D) Ford Mustang

Answer · why

B) Cadillac V-16

Cadillac V-16. The club admits only costly, limited-production cars, so the mass-produced Model T is shut out even though its dates fit, and nothing b...

Q 03/05

To car collectors, the 'vintage' era begins the year after which event ended?

A) World War I

B) World War II

C) The Great Depression

D) Prohibition

Answer · why

A) World War I

World War I. The vintage years are usually counted from 1919 to about 1930, a decade in which the typical new car went from an open tourer to a closed...

Q 04/05

What was the nickname of the Ford Model T?

A) Baby Austin

B) Iron Betsy

C) Old Henry

D) Tin Lizzie

Answer · why

D) Tin Lizzie

Tin Lizzie. The assembly line let Ford cut the touring car's price from $850 in 1908 to under $300 by 1925.

Q 05/05

Early Ford Model Ts came in gray, green, blue or red; which single color then replaced them all until 1925?

A) Cream

B) Black

C) Yellow

D) Brown

Answer · why

B) Black

Black. By his own account Henry Ford told his staff in 1909 that buyers could have any color 'so long as it is black', years before the one-color rule...