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I’ve had a few guesses sent in for the Car Quiz – Aspen and Lachie gave a few answers, Dowling had an unsettling knowledge of animated TV shows while Ozi had an unnerving knowledge of animated films. Greg chimed in late in the piece, I already had most of his answers, but he gets accolades for providing the solution to number 40 – that fucker was haunting a few of us (and the car wasn’t from Grease, Cobra or Tucker like we first thought). A bunch of people wrote to say they liked the quiz and would send their answers when they had time, but I haven’t heard back. I think this was because a list of 55 cars was a bit of a long haul, so next time I put one of these silhouette quizzes up (and I have about half a dozen more) I will leave the comments open, so that the more enthusiastic readers can have a crack, and the rest can fill in the spaces later.

The Car picture is actually a T-Shirt design from Chop Shop, the creators recommended putting it up on blogs for people to take guesses. I’ll put a few more of these up in the next few weeks (I think we’ll tackle the robots one next). It’s a great t-shirt design, but gets a furrowed brow from me for not including the station wagon from National Lampoon’s Vacation.

I was glad to have you guys send in your answers, because I was stumped on a lot of these. I’m usually good with movie centric quizzes, but I’m a complete dunce when it comes to cars (even though I’m a big fan of movie cars too). If the car had a visual clue I could get it, but I couldn’t spot the cars on shape alone. There was no cheating either, as there are no answers available from the site the design came from.

Visual clues you may, or may not have spotted:

Loud speakers on top of number 6, so that we can tell the neighborhood about the upcoming concert to save the orphanage.

Bull horns on the bonnet of number 10, Confederate flag on the roof of number 12. Both from the same TV Show.

The skis on top of number 37 (though John Cusack only ends up using one of them to win the race).

The jack holding up the back of number 45, so that we can roll back the odometer before Cameron’s dad gets home from work.

Our final score for combined correct answers is 41/55, which gives us a 75% success rate and therefore a “B” rating. That’s not bad, but still not impressive enough to get us high fives from complete strangers on the street. I’ll stick the robot quiz up on Monday.

The car quiz picture is below, and I have set up three sets of remarks in the comments section. The first part is our 41 correct answers, the second part is a further eight I found through extensive net surfing. A combination of sifting through famous car lists, and just plain pure luck (but didn’t include these cars in the grading – we’ll keep that bitch pure using webless memory power alone), and the third part is the remaining five cars I have no idea about. I've given the complete model name of the cars if i could find it, because I know there are a few petrol heads who frequent the site.

Click on the date of this article below to get the picture and comments on the same screen. If you know any of the cars that are still baffling us, please put us out of our fucking misery. Else, just write some random shit if the mood strikes you. This is the first time the comments section has been open in over four months, so go nuts.