Puzzler of the week

[Scott MacLean]

This week's puzzler:

I was on a holiday recently and my car was in need of petrol.

I was on a secondary road, and I turned into a self-service gas station. I pulled up to one of the minipumps, and absentmindedly reached for the nozzle.

I was just about to fill up my tank, when I happened to notice that the gasoline was a little expensive.

In fact, it was $4.59 a gallon. I said, "Whoa. What kind of vehicle uses this stuff?"

I looked around. There was a vehicle on the lift and I knew immediately why this gasoline was $4.59 a gallon.

Here's the question: What did I see?


Last week's puzzler:

In 1936 an American car company introduced a car that could go 100 miles an hour. Now it certainly wasn't the first vehicle that could go 100 miles an hour, but it may have been this company's first vehicle that could go 100 miles an hour. The question is what is the name of that car, and the hint is you can still buy the same make and model today. I mean not the 1936 version, you can buy the updated version of that very car that was made in 1936.

The answer is, the Buick Century. It could go 100 miles an hour, hence the Century name, and it was a Buick, hence the Buick name.

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