100 Questions For Oldtimers

[Forty Rod]

And Del's up and running this morning.  Two for two so far.

[Delmonico]

And Del's up and running this morning.  Two for two so far.

But you never answered mine on:

"piston engine goes Bong, Bong and the ----------- goes Mmmmmmm.

As I said if it's one a yer's forgive me, but an ad reminded me of it the other day and didn't want to lose it in my mind.

[Four-Eyed Buck]

#5 is Kodak

[Forty Rod]

But you never answered mine on:

"piston engine goes Bong, Bong and the ----------- goes Mmmmmmm.

As I said if it's one a yer's forgive me, but an ad reminded me of it the other day and didn't want to lose it in my mind.

Mazda's Wankle rotary engine.

[Forty Rod]

#5 is Kodak

No it isn't.  Try again.   

[Delmonico]

Mazda's Wankle rotary engine.

Yep from 1972 I think, they had a radio add on some whiz bang car and was talkin' 'bout how their engine was so good, but it was a V-6, not a Vankel.

[Forty Rod]

Nope.  RX-4 rotary was the car in the TV ads. 

A friend bought one and the sliding vanes in the rotor kept jamming up.  He must have had it in the shop a dozen times, finally traded it in on a Nissan / Datsun 280ZX (Which had almost as many problems.)

They seem to have fixed the problem because when I was selling Mazdas in the early 90s the twin turbo RX-7 would beat almost anything in it's displacement class and would eat a Porsche alive up to about 120.   

Hummmmmmmm! 

[Delmonico]

Tis funny though they now promote a piston engine that goes bong bong, I think the Vankel is limited to the sports car today.

And I 'member readin' in Poular Mechanic's how they would replace the piston engine, (they forgot to say like the Turbine one did also.)

[Lucky Irish Tom]

1. for 7 - 11
3. Xerox

[Arcey]

Show of hands. How many wanted ta answer 5 Kodak?

International Coffees.

[Forty Rod]

LIT got two and Arcey's on the board with 1.

Does anyone remeber the Mecedes Benz C-111 (I think that was the model...wild-looking beast with flying struts in the rear and a totally faired in front end.) that ran 100,000 miles at the Nurburgring without being shut down?  They pulled in for fuel and to change drivers, but never turned the dang thing off.  Seems they were running it at 100mph+ the whole way, too.  That's the first time I ever heard of Herr Wankel's engine.

Mazda bought the rights, but MD never produced a rotary for sale to the best of my knowlege.

[Arcey]

LIT got two and Arcey's on the board with 1.

Make 'im werk harder.

9, Jockey shorts.

[Leo Tanner]

It aint just "International Coffee", there's more ta name than that.
     Two wimmin shootin the bull an one of em pulls out a square can of powder.  One of em talks about a crush she had on a waiter while she was vacationin in france.  The wimmin look at at each other an say his name.  Then the tag line came.

[Forty Rod]

Now you're catchin' up.

[Forty Rod]

It aint just "International Coffee", there's more ta name than that.
     Two wimmin shootin the bull an one of em pulls out a square can of powder.  One of em talks about a crush she had on a waiter while she was vacationin in france.  The wimmin look at at each other an say his name.  Then the tag line came.

General Foods International Coffee.  GF is the company.  No one else makes a brand called International Coffee so I gave it to him.

[Leo Tanner]

Thats fine, my brain is so full of this cr@p that I just like ta be the peanut gallery.
     It was General Mills.

[Arcey]

General Mills? General Foods but the brand was IC.

Wash yer mind out with some Woodbury soap.

[Forty Rod]

Izzat an offishul answer?

[Arcey]

Naw.....

[Lucky Irish Tom]

Give it to him Forty!

2. Motorola
4. U.S.O.
7. Woodbury Soap