Ladies and Gentlemen, Start Your Engines

1.  Lisa Fieg has continuously held a New York State driver's license for over 30 years and has driven:

A.  1,000 miles or less

B.  about 100,000 miles

C.  over 250,000 miles

D.  over 1,500,000 miles

2.  One morning shortly after she was married, Judy Kestner descended the stairs in the Florida townhouse she shared with hubby Joe to find him ensconced in the kitchen for the purpose of:

A.  surprising Judy with a lovely breakfast of eggs, bacon, pancakes and fresh-squeezed OJ
B.  cleaning the room from top to bottom, including mopping the floor and applying a fresh coat of Johnson's wax, after having dropped an open can of motor oil
C.  rebuilding the air-cooled engine of a 1966 Volkswagen beetle on the floor
D.  soaking the carburetor of her 1973 American Motors Hornet in the sink

3.  Phyllis Fieg drives a gray 1984 Buick Century sedan with over one-quarter of a million miles on the odometer and has challenged herself to keep it running as long as possible.  As of the date of this post, the only thing in the car that has not been changed at least twice since its purchase is:

A.  the transmission

B.  the radiator

C.  the engine
D.  Phyllis Fieg

4.  One of Lothar Fieg Sr.'s business associates, Jack Robinson, bought a brand new Chrysler Imperial and, after driving out of the showroom, noticed in the sunlight that the vehicle had a flawed paint job. When the dealer would neither fix it properly nor accept return of the vehicle, Jack Robinson elected to:

A. at a considerable loss to himself, trade it for a new Cadillac De Ville.
B. at a considerable loss to himself, trade it for a new Lincoln Town Car.
C. at a considerable loss to himself, douse the Chrysler with a volatile accelerant, set it afire and turned  it into junk.
D. at a considerable loss of himself, drink an entire can of Drano.
 
5. In the early 1950s, Flo and Dick preferred a Chevy, Jim and Emilie bought Buicks, Bud and Catherine drove Fords while Dorothy and Bob, and Maxine and Bob drove Cadillacs.  Philip and Jean Davie Fieg, however, chose a personal vehicle with a much more unusual nameplate, the same as that of his father's car, which was a:

A.  Willys
B.   Kaiser
C.  Packard
D.  Hudson

6.  When Frank Fieg returned home from the Pacific in 1945 at the end of World War II, he found no new automobiles available because Detroit had devoted production entirely to military vehicles for the past four years. Thus Frank bought a 1939 Pontiac.  Later, his first post-war car bore a nameplate that today most people under age 50 will be unable to recognize.  The brand was:

A.  Nash
B.  DeSoto
C.  Rambler
D. Studebaker

7.  During the 1950s, Frank and Marina Fieg, Jim and Emilie McGonigal and Maxine and Bob Whiteside all chose heavy, high-powered General Motors automobiles built for practicality, comfort and the open road.  Frank's 1954 "Tin Woody"  Pontiac station  wagon, however, differed from the others mechanically in one key feature.  When he brought the car to Milford Center to show it to his sister and brother-in-law,  Frank's nephews Jonny and Tommy McGonigal and other boys from the neighborhood scoffed at this mechanical anomaly, but decided to see the difference for themselves.  When they opened the hood, their faces lit up as if they had just been presented with a cake.  "There it is!" said Tommy.  Before him he beheld:

A.  A genuine diesel locomotive air horn
B.  A Plexiglas, see-through firewall.
C.  A four-barreled, racing carburetor.
D.  An in line, "straight eight" cylinder configuration, instead of a "V-8."

8.  His fledgling career as a stock car racer came to an abrupt end when an oval track collision destroyed his automobile near Syracuse.

A.  Raymon Davie

B.  Victor P. "Phid" Fieg
C.  Dr. Ed Fieg Sr.
D.  Bill Doyle

9.  By the time he was only 10 years old, Cade Dangca had acquired enough knowledge to operate a diesel locomotive, a skill learned from using computer software that created a virtual reality train cab. Another family member, however, has not only acquired the knowledge and ability to run a locomotive but has done so. He is:

A. Richard Fieg 
B. Pete Holm
C. Brian Fieg
D. Richie Bookhout

10.  In the early 1960s, the Philip Fieg family purchased their first brand new, out-of-the-showroom car ever.  To help her remember what kind of car it was, Judy created a mnemonic rhyme that went:

A. "'63 Ford Galaxie"
B.  "'62 light blue Chevy II"
C.  "'61 Lincoln really runs"
D.  "Six-oh Peugeot can go"

ANSWERS:

1.  A

2.  C

3.  D

4.  C
5.  A
6.  B
7.  D
8.  C

9.  A

10. B