The Karmann Ghia was the Italian carriage maker Ghia’s collaboration with VW; their 1950s collaboration with Dodge was the Dual Ghia. Frank Sinatra drove one that, like many of his vehicles, was his favorite color- orange- inside and out.
The BMW logo, the roundel, is an image of a spinning two-bladed airplane propeller. The white quadrants are the blurred propeller, and the blue quadrants are the blue sky, such as these images.
Ooh can I play off the not quite the last piece of trivia please…
Carolyn Davidson was paid $35 for designing the Nike Swoosh logo.
The Chevrolet logo is a man’s bow tie.
astorian, the Paul-is-dead trivia update was great. Thanks.
There might be a bit more to it than that: http://home.earthlink.net/~scrippsbooth/chevbowtiehistory.html
http://gearheads.org/the-history-of-chevrolet/
In play: The plug-in electric Chevrolet Volt (and related Opel/Vauxhall Ampera) was named the 2012 North American Car of the Year, European Car of the Year and World Green Car of the Year.
The volt is named for Alessandro Volta who is credited with creating the first electrochemical battery that could continuously power an electric circuit.
The. Boeing Dreamliner was recently grounded due to problems with battery overheating.
In a legal sense “assault” is an attempt to cause bodily harm to another; “battery” means you have actually struck another. Without physical contact, it’s only assault or attempted battery.
The Led Zeppelin song “Houses of the Holy” appears on their album “Physical Graffiti” and not on the album “Houses of the Holy”.
According to Terry Jones, King Arthur and his Knights were originally supposed to find the Holy Grail at Harrod’s department store.
An early draft of Monty Python and the Holy Grail had King Arthur and his ki-niggets stealing the Grail from a heavily-guarded Italian church. God, behind the wheel of the getaway van, zooms away with them and (accidentally?) drives into a nearby lake. The van plunges in and disappears. A few bubbles pop to the surface. Roll credits.
The bubbles on the inside surface of a glass of poured Guinness move downwards due to a draft or current caused by bubbles on the inside travelling upward at a faster rate.
Dorothy L. Sayers, known for her Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries, worked as a copywriter for Guinness and is credited with the jingle linked here.
Lord Grantham is played by British actor Hugh Bonneville in Downton Abbey. His name appears first in the opening credits, as the names of the cast are listed in alphabetical order.
Three original New York Titans – Bill Mathis, Don Maynard, and Larry Grantham – were still on the team when it won the Super Bowl (with the nickname changed to “Jets”).
The first Winnipeg Jets began in the World Hockey Association in 1972, moved to the NHL in 1979, and relocated to Phoenix in 1996, becoming the Phoenix Coyotes.
The current Winnipeg Jets began life as an expansion team, the Atlanta Thrashers, and relocated to Winnipeg in 2011.
The San Jose Sharks have yet to win a Stanley Cup Championship.
The Winnipeg Blue Bombers have the longest Grey Cup drought in the CFL, not having won it since 1990.
In 1914, WWI Captain Harry Colebourn took a black bear he named Winnie (after his hometown Winnipeg) to England as his regiment’s mascot. When he shipped out to France, he donated the bear to the London Zoo. Author AA Milne’s son Christopher so loved the bear that Milne crafted stories about his boy and the bear, Winnie the Pooh.
On The Cosby Show, Cliff Huxtable’s first two grandchildren were named in honor of Nelson and Winnie Mandela.