Driving Canada.com has some quizzes if you have a moment to test yourself

http://www.driving.ca/story.html?id=5179619

Famous cars (37 out of 45 tv and movie cars, they are either easy or impossible ... which of the Back to the Future movies? Really? And the Cuda is a 71, not a 70)

Car advertising slogans
Car identification by taillight  (I got 28 of 35, huge range, from 60's sports cars to new Hondas and Toyotas)
Car company emblem identification (I got 44 out of 50)

It's a little slow because of the one question per web page, next page for the answer, next page for the second question format...  but hell, I didn't want to make a test like this! Time consuming to photograph 50 car manufacturers logos, crop them, photoshop out the name FORD for example, then post them and the answers, and grade it... 

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How much of a (pre1976) gear head car guy are you? I'm not testing you, just offering these for your use (but don't email me the answers! I know them already!)

What cars were factory Super Stockers in the 1960's drag racing wars? (Made by GM, Ford, Chrysler, AMC... and factory built only to drag race, sometimes not street legal in any way)

 I don't know anyone (I know they are out there, but I don't have them on the phone to ask for a helping hand to edit this) 
who knows more about all of the vast car world in general (versus hot rod or sports car fanatics for example)
than I do (I am not a specialist) 
because I'm just a car guy 
(like I say in this website title)

 with a passion for all things with wheels and have learned a friggin ton about all makes and models, from all countries and eras. So there are some errors in semantics, writing, and use of the English language following... 

And I seemed to have irritated all the HAMBers by coming across as a know it all that doesn't/hasn't worked on any cars. Only one realized I was asking for help, not challenging them to a pissing contest. Of course, they shut off the thread in 9 hours flat from the time they started commenting on it,  before I got online today, where I could have explained that my linguistic skills are so poor that my miscommunication of asking for their help to make this set of questions was my fault, and now I am unable to clarify to them that I went to them for help in making a fun/enjoyable test where the questions weren't redundant, vague, misleading. They didn't seem to understand the words "help please" when I asked for editting assistance

but I hope you enjoy this challenge, and maybe win a bet among your friends as to who knows more about cars.

I've tried not to drift into obscure things like option codes, COPO cars, designers, one off unique prototypes, etc

So I apologize for coming off as a know it all, and offending so many of you , because I simply am not fluent enough to communicate that this was intended as a fun test, not a presumptuous / pretentious challenge from me to you. 

I don't have anyone with more knowledge about pre-1976 cars in general to fall back on as a 2nd checker,  to proofread this test for the correct way to form the question without being to vague,
accuracy, 
mistakes, 
and questions that a regular car guy wouldn't have a chance of knowing. 

If you are that guru of the car guy world, PLEASE email me and help me make this test better! jbohjkl@yahoo.com 

What models of Chevys came with a base and a Super Sport option?

How many cars were pickup bed versions of a normal car (example El Camino and Chevelle) can you name? Not including Austalian cars.

What were the 1970 high impact colors for Mopars?

How many car companies can you name from Italy, Japan, France, Germany, Great Britains countries (you know, England, Wales, Ireland, Scotland ) The USA, and Australia?

What were the Canadian car model names of the GM (Pontiac, Chevrolet, and Buick) cars? Hint, there were 4 that I know of... and one was available in a convertible that was never available in the USA model that it was identical to.

What were the Canadian Chrysler cars (and one truck) model names? There are 8 that I know of.

How many dead car companies from America can you name?

How many AMC models can you name?

What models did Chevy have that started with the letter C?

Who patented the car, and legally forced all the big car companies to pay him a licensing fee until Ford fought lawsuits with appeals, because it was cutting into profits too much?

What company had the first modern mass production line?

Who made the Jeep prototype for the government contract but wasn't really able to produce it in numbers that the US govt needed to supply the Army in WW2?

What are the most famous car companies to make aircraft engines?

What is the last and only independant car company in England?

What were the three cars to be made in America that are synonymous with ugly?

What cars did Hurst get their name on through ventures with the big corporations?

What cars had a Shelby valve covers from the factory or dealership, and or Shelby badging on the outside of the car?

How many companies can you name that made bodies for car companies like Packard, Duesenburg, Cadillac, etc ?

What companies merged to become American Motor Corporation?

What car had the most options in the 1960's?

What cars had hood scoops, and which Mopar is a glaringly obvious model that didn't?

What Mopars came with 3 two barrels?

what caused them to name the Buick model, the Century?

What cars raced in the 1st New York to Paris?

What cars raced in the 1st Paris to Beijing?

What mid or rear engined cars can you name?

How many custom Mustang and Corvette companies can you name? (not parts suppliers... I mean companies that take factory cars, and made them faster or better handling or both, and stamped their name on them, like Saleen)

What are ARDUN heads, Clifford intakes,  6 pack carbs, Gurney Eagles, side oilers

How many carburetor companies can you name?

How many camshaft companies can you name?

Where would you find a Dana 60, a 9 inch, and a 12 bolt?

2 car parts are known as banjos, what are they?

Who invented the fuel log?

What car part did Nicola Tesla patent?

How many transmissions can you name?

What are sprints and midgets?

What 12 race did Steve McQueen enter in 1970?

What race car is Steve McQueen most commonly associated with?

What was the rarest car Steve McQueen owned?

What is the SCCA, SCTA, GNRS, SYC, OEM, NOS, COE?

What are the following people famous for?
Ed Cole, Ed Roth, Ed Winfield, Barney Oldfield, Barney Navarro, Wally Parks, Norm Grabowski,

Name the land speed record setting cars (not jet engine cars, piston powered)

Name land speed record setting drivers

Name land speed racing locations

Name the hot rodders 1940's dry lakes, there are at least 4

Who made the Dude and the Demon?

How many Chevy car models that came with a Super Sport option level can you name?

Name the most famous engine builders of Hemi's

Who is the Snake, the Mongoose, the Professor?

What cars came from the factory with flat black hoods?

What cars did Hurst collaborate on and get the Hurst name on?

What were the high impact Mopar colors of 1970?

Name the Aero war cars of 1968-1971 that were developed to get more Nascar victories and sold to the public only because of the homologation rule?

Name the after market shifter companies

What Super Stock cars can you name?

What was the sister car to the Torino Talledaga?

What were the AMC "X" car models?

What was the last of the muscle cars in the 1970's?

What 4 car companies comprised Auto Union, represented by the 4 rings

What cars came from Mopar with the 426 hemi?

What cars did Shelby put engines in or his name on?

Name at least 6 types of rims, not rim making companies

When did the big 3 switch from generators to alternators?

What car company made the Jeep prototype, but who built them in numbers needed for WW2?

What was the Jeep truck model named?

When vinyl tops were options, what was the point of getting your car optioned with one?

What were the big blocks in the 65-75 muscle cars years from the big 3?

What were the AMC v-8s sizes?

What was the biggest of the muscle car v-8s? Hint, smaller than the 460 truck engine

Which cars had stripes on the nose or tail?

Cars had the engine sizes indicated with numbers on the outside of the car in many ways... how many can you name? Stickers are a way, not a type. Mopar had at least 2 stickers with specific names that gave the engine size.

Who made "the Machine"?

Name the awesome muscle car era car dealerships you would go to to get the fastest cars

How many VW models can you name, pre 1971?

What company did Ford have build the Boss 429 Mustangs?

Who put together the ZL1 Camaros?

What is a UTE?

What cars came from the factory with dual quads?

What is the give away in the Mopar engine bay that you would look for to indicate a track pack optioned car?

Where was the name "Camaro" claimed by Chevrolet to have come from?

Who made the Delmont, Beaumont, Wildcat, Cyclone, Biscayne?

What did a Mustang GT-A come with?

What was Briggs Cunningham known for? Art Arfons? The Blastolene Brothers? Mad Man Muntz? Frank Kurtis?

Who were the Drag Masters?

What was the Wagon Master?

What was the Candymatic?

What cars came factory optioned with the Boss 302, Boss 429, ZL1?

What is a mountain motor?

What was the Rent a Racer?

What was the famous Alabama state trooper car?

How many supercharger manufacturers can you name?

Name the 2 seater sports cars made in america, before 1971. Not kit cars.

The top of the line Cougar was called the ? Coronet? Mustang? Charger? Road Runner? Maverick?

What cars have had a retro comeback? (A modern remake design in the past decade or two because the car companies are too stupid to innovate anything interesting)

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2009 ZR1

most expensive production car GM ever made, $103,300. A base Corvette was $48,000

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A990 superstock Plymouth trivia

 above photo from http://draglist.smugmug.com/Drag-Racing/2010-York-Musclecar-Madness/12886056_HLL43/3/930442314_XDG4d#!i=930442314&k=XDG4d

above photo from http://stores.ultimatediecastmusclecars.com/Detail.bok?no=55

the trivia.. this was one of only 3 A990 known to still exist with a 4 speed, 833 trans

It was the winner of the (Tulsa Oklahoma )World Nationals in 1967.. and was 2 years old. Obsolete by most opinions of drag racers, but beat the factory racers in the newest lightweight cars, with the newest most expensive trick parts. Grumpy Jenkins, Sox and Martin, etc etc etc were not the champs in 1967, it was a couple guys you've never heard of in a 2 year old car that was getting by on pity parts from friends and fans, Like George Hurst who gave them a shifterand line lock, and they won the largest purse to that point for Super Stock  $10,000

Learned about this story in the Oct 2012 Mopar Muscle magazine

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The old Spanish Trail, from San Diego California downtown to St Augustine in Florida

Located in Horton Plaza, under the garish glare of a Planet Hollywood sign, the Pacific Milestone seems painfully out of place today. However, on November 17, 1923, the plaza was the site of several thousand people gathered to honor Fletcher�s ceaseless work to bring a southern national highway to San Diego. President Coolidge began the ceremony, pressing a button in the White House which set off a bell in the plaza amid the cheers of thousands. Launched in 1915 in Mobile, Alabama as a connector route between New Orleans and Florida, the Old Spanish Trail soon expanded to a transcontinental trail, linking St. Augustine, Florida, to San Diego, California.

Spanish missions, forts, and trails had indeed historically occurred along many sections of the highway. And historic expedition routes used by De Soto, De Vaca and De Navarez, as well as lesser-known mission trails in Florida and Texas, did roughly align with the Old Spanish Trail. With these in mind, the Old Spanish Trail was publicized for tourists with an exotic narrative of the Trail following the �footsteps of the Padres and Conquistadores� they were also an early effort to get motorists interested in roadside history; a goal later realized by the WPA state guidebooks.
Begun with a bang, progress on the highway stalled in the late teens due to WW1 and the considerable expense of building bridges across the numerous waterways emptying into the Gulf.

The biggest obstacles to developing the transcontinental highway were the ferries. As late as 1927, only 100 cars per day could travel across Mobile Bay by boat.

Numerous major waterways needed to be spanned between Florida and New Orleans. These formidable physical obstacles included two-thirds of the drainage waters of the United States and 125 miles of delta formation east and west of the Mississippi River.

To cross these waterways most state and local highway authorities relied on 30 private ferries between Houston and Florida. The majority of the ferries worked on limited schedules and charged exorbitant fees, a situation not conducive to building a transcontinental highway.

High tolls between Florida and Louisiana were causing motorists to avoid the Louisiana section of the OST entirely.

The United States� ongoing experience in Europe during World War I, as well as Pancho Villa�s bloody incursion over the border in 1916, had awakened America to the need for dependable military roads. In reaction, numerous trails associations and good roads groups cast their publicity and promotion to reflect importance to defense in the hope that the government would take over the road and build it. A 1917 National Geographic article entitled �The Immediate Necessity for Military Highways� urged Americans to build a national highway system

After several years of near inactivity, the highway project shifted west to Texas (1/3rd of the road), and took on new vigor. The Old Spanish Trail Association successfully brought the highway to completion in 1929.

To celebrate Old Spanish Trail�s completion, St. Augustine hosted a three-day gala, including the dedication of a six-foot diameter coquina stone monument marking the beginning of the trail. (see below for info about this)

The OSTA made one final trip from Florida to San Diego in October 1929. The official itinerary for the trip encouraged members to form the �biggest motorcade ever staged.� By the time they reached Lordsburg, New Mexico, the motorcade �owing to rains and heavy floods through the south� consisted of only fifteen cars

The lure of the OST continued to captivate travelers until the early 1960s, when new interstates redirected traffic off the old road.

Despite the publication of thousands of brochures, maps, and the release of a feature-length promotional film, the completion of Interstates 8 and 10 in the late 1960s doomed the Old Spanish Trail to extinction. The new interstates, which provided a straighter and faster course across much of the Southwest, left many sections of old U.S. 90 and 80 to fade into obscurity.

http://drivetheost.com/history.html is the source of the above info and the map
http://ezinearticles.com/?St-Augustines-Zero-Milestone---A-Not-So-Spanish-Old-Spanish-Trail&id=2363462 for the below info

The zero milestone marker is one of the most misunderstood landmarks in St. Augustine.

The marker is a six foot diameter coquina stone ball with a bronze plaque attached to it. Only the year "1928" which is inscribed on the plaque prevents the visitor from including the stone with St. Augustine's nineteenth or eighteenth century historic lore.

 The plaque simply states that the monument marks the beginning of the Old Spanish Trail between St. Augustine and San Diego, California. Many tourists conjure up a vision of Spanish missionaries and soldiers slogging their way from this marker across the United States to San Diego. The fact that the marker is dated 1928 does little to change their speculations.

The facts are that the Old Spanish Trail did not have its origins in Spanish St. Augustine but in Mobile, Alabama. The City of Mobile developed as a French, not Spanish colony at Fort Louise de la Mobile. 

To enhance and romanticize the road it was called the Old Spanish Trail. Although it is true that the road would connect many Spanish initiated settlements the purpose was what today we would call marketing hype. 

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