Connections! Puzzle #2 - Solved! Woody Bodies, Charcoal, and Kingsford, MI.

[Otto Puzzell]

See the two pictures above below? Two very distinct purposes. Linked by one man's vision at a point in time when the two came together.

Can you make the connection?

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[MG]

Is that lower picture two lumps of charcoal or a coupla animal droppings you found around the property?   

[Allan L]

"any color so long as it's black" - H. Ford

[Otto Puzzell]

The comedy cavalcade continues...

[porridgehead]

Top speed?
Ease of ignition?
Aerodynamic Cd?
One is made from ash, while the other one turns into ash?
One has carbine lights, the other is lighted carbon?

I got nuthin. 

[Allan L]

One has carbine lights

Is this another case of two great nations devided by a common language? Hereabouts a carbine is a rifle, not a hydrocarbon gas.

[porridgehead]

Errr... seperated by a common keyboard?

See, the 'N' is next to the 'B', which stands for "Boy, I'm a lousy typist", that is beneath the 'G', which stands for "Golly, I sure messed that up", that's adjacent to the 'F', which stands for "Freakin' A, how far off can I be?" that's beside to the 'D', which stands for "Dumbass", which is the word for people like me who make a royal botcheroo of things like this.

'D' is also, not coincidentally, the letter that I wanted to type instead of 'N'.

Carbide. The stuff to make Acetely... assetalen... asatal... the stuff that's not propane.

Did you ever wonder how I came by the name 'Porridgehead'? No? Funny, that's what everybody says.

[Allan L]

Dear Mr. Porridgehead (or may I call you Porridge?)

Nothing could be clearer: we hammerchewer trypists must stick together

[MG]

Being serious for a moment (don't worry, it won't last long), to my ancient eyes the sign on the vehicle APPEARS to say something about a hydrogen fueled Ford 1927 something or other.

But that can't be right. And what it has to do with two dessicate sheep turds, I have NO idea!      Perhaps sheep give off hydrogen when they make their daily deposits upon the ground as opposed to cows, who expel methane and quite a bit of it.  Neither, however, can quite match the truly awesome awfulness of whatever gas it is that elephants expel on the way into the circus tent.  THAT chemical compound would loosen the tongue of the most dedicated terrorist and make water boarding appear almost humane by comparison.

But  I digress........

[porridgehead]

Henry Ford specified the crates that parts were shipped to him. Parts of those crates were then used in the production of wooden car bodies. Scraps were used to make charcoal briquettes that were sold under the name Kingsford. (accent on the Ford).

That Henry was one smart guy.

[Otto Puzzell]

Very close to the answer I was looking for. Where did these bodies (and charcoal) come from?

[Tifosi]

Didn't Ford own a forest in or around Iron Mountain, Michigan?  If I remember correctly, that was where the wood for the Sportsman bodies came from.


Dan

[Otto Puzzell]

It did...

[MG]

Your kidding!     That steaming pile of pschobabble was somewhat ACCURATE??   

Damn, PablumPate. Can you let us know when you are being serious?   Sheeesh......

[porridgehead]

I'm always serious. Sometimes I'm just really wrong.

[MG]

Seriously funny, in my judgment!   

[GTO48]

Very close to the answer I was looking for. Where did these bodies (and charcoal) come from?

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[GTO48]

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[Otto Puzzell]

Yep!

Nice find. That's the very article that inspired this puzzle. 

[porridgehead]

What a wonderfully twisted piece of historical trivia. Great find.