Q 01/05

Mopar, short for motor parts, first appeared in 1937 on cans of which Chrysler product?

A) Motor oil

B) Antifreeze

C) Brake fluid

D) Car polish

Answer · why

B) Antifreeze

Antifreeze was the first product to wear the name, coined by an internal Chrysler council. Enthusiasts later stretched Mopar to cover any vehicle the ...

Q 02/05

What is the orange 1969 Dodge Charger driven by the Duke cousins in The Dukes of Hazzard called?

A) Eleanor

B) Traveller

C) General Lee

D) Black Beauty

Answer · why

C) General Lee

General Lee appears in every episode but one. The name echoes Traveller, the bootlegger's car in Moonrunners, the film the series grew out of.

Q 03/05

Plymouth paid Warner Bros. $50,000 to name its 1968 budget muscle car after which cartoon character?

A) Road Runner

B) Speedy Gonzales

C) Yosemite Sam

D) Daffy Duck

Answer · why

A) Road Runner

Road Runner rights were only part of the bill. Plymouth spent a further $10,000 developing a horn that imitated the bird's cartoon call.

Q 04/05

In which 1968 film does a black Dodge Charger chase Steve McQueen's Mustang through San Francisco?

A) Dirty Harry

B) The Getaway

C) Le Mans

D) Bullitt

Answer · why

D) Bullitt

Bullitt put stunt driver Bill Hickman, who also played one of the hitmen, at the wheel of the black Charger. Spliced takes make the Dodge shed more wh...

Q 05/05

What kind of engine powered the 1963 Chrysler coupe lent to 203 ordinary drivers in a public trial?

A) Wankel rotary

B) Two-stroke

C) Fuel cell

D) Gas turbine

Answer · why

D) Gas turbine

Gas turbine power meant the coupe could burn almost anything. Mexico's president ran one on tequila after Chrysler's engineers confirmed it would work...