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About Quiz # 175: 1919 Stork-Kar
When we make this quiz, we never know if it’s going to be difficult or not, because there’s so much knowledge among our readers. This one proved really tough as no one guessed right. We received suggestions like Maxwell or Empire, but the right answer should be 1919 Stork-Kar. It was made in Martinsburg, West-Virginia by the Norwalk Motor Company as a badge-engineered version of their own Norwalk Model 4-19. (Norwalk even made two badge-engineered versions of this model, the other the Marshall from Chicago). The Stork-Kar was marketed as a five-passenger touring-car. It had a 4-cylinder
Lycoming engine (click) that was slightly overpowered for a car like this. It was sold by Ch.T. Stork & Co. in New York, and even exported. It was quite a common motor-car, but a contemporary road-test described the Stork-Kar as having several outstanding qualities, like the powerful engine, good springing and good road holding. See you all next week; hopefully it won’t be that difficult again.
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Friday, 03 March 2006
When we make this quiz, we never know if it’s going to be difficult or not, because there’s so much knowledge among our readers. This one proved really tough as no one guessed right. We received suggestions like Maxwell or Empire, but the right answer should be 1919 Stork-Kar. It was made in Martinsburg, West-Virginia by the Norwalk Motor Company as a badge-engineered version of their own Norwalk Model 4-19. (Norwalk even made two badge-engineered versions of this model, the other the Marshall from Chicago). The Stork-Kar was marketed as a five-passenger touring-car. It had a 4-cylinder Lycoming engine (click) that was slightly overpowered for a car like this. It was sold by Ch.T. Stork & Co. in New York, and even exported. It was quite a common motor-car, but a contemporary road-test described the Stork-Kar as having several outstanding qualities, like the powerful engine, good springing and good road holding. See you all next week; hopefully it won’t be that difficult again.
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