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Topic: ID your American Iron

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Re: ID your American Iron

I got 9 of 19.  I am amazed I got that many right considering I was raised on Citroen DS's.  There wasn't a sphere on any of these things!!

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I just followed engine colors, sticker colors and looked for other context clues. Got just over half right.

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Re: ID your American Iron

I only got 13 out of 19, and I'm still pissed about the Chevy 348-vs-409 one. Who the hell can tell the difference between those two?

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Re: ID your American Iron

I got all 19 right.

Judge Phil wrote:

I only got 13 out of 19, and I'm still pissed about the Chevy 348-vs-409 one. Who the hell can tell the difference between those two?

The air cleaner was the giveaway.

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11/19.  Mostly by contextual clues, dizzy location, valve covers and exhaust manifolds.

Engine colors and whether the engine bay was body color or black can also help...

The supercharged ones were fun.

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I got 10 right. I don't think I did too bad considering most of them were out of production when I was born.

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13/19

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17/19. Admittedly I got some of them by looking at context clues of the car surrounding the engine.

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12/19.  Though I don't feel too bad about that, really.  The Pontiac engines stood out like beacons to me.

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13 of 19, and I never owned a car with that many cylinders!

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I got 12 out of 19 and my nephew Justin got 17 out of 19

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13 out of 19 but mostly because I talked myself out of the correct answer. I got all the tri-power mills which was pretty sweet.

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I only got 10 right.  I truly am dumber than I thought...

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7 of 19 right.

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I only got a couple of them right, but I'm a computer geek.  sad

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I got 12. Nailed all the Mopars, and the Chevies, but BOP has never been my strong suit.

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14 out of 19 with a few lucky guesses.

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19 out of 19. The engine colors did it for me, Olds Gold, Pontiac Blue, etc...

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Judge Phil wrote:

I only got 13 out of 19, and I'm still pissed about the Chevy 348-vs-409 one. Who the hell can tell the difference between those two?

The 409 never came with Tri-Power.

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Re: ID your American Iron

10

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Just so everyone knows, the 'pure guesswork because I'm foreign and don't have a clue unless it's a Vauxhall Nova or a Ford Escort MkII' method will result in a score of 12 out of 19!

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13/19 for me, but I'm a furrin car guy.

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19/19. Which is absolutely remarkable, because I had not even the slightest clue. At all. I just went with what 'felt right'.

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Re: ID your American Iron

15 out of 19 and most all of those were made before I was

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