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Six Degrees of Automotive Separation: Kaiser and Volvo

| среда, 30 сентября 2009 г.

Kaiser and Volvo in the Hemmings Six Degrees of Automotive Separation Challenge

Like last week’s Hemmings Six Degrees of Automotive Separation Challenge, we’re placing an American independent on one end of the telephone line and an overseas automaker on the other end and trying to settle the differences between them by showing them just how many connections separate them.

If you’ve been paying attention to past Six Degrees Challenges, you might even have a head start on forming a chain of connections between the two. And if you’re a real student of automotive history, you might be able to do it in two links as we did.

But, of course, that’s not the point. The rules, as before, are simple: A connection consists of one company owning another, merging with another or sharing another’s parts. Explain your connections, and as before, the point isn’t necessarily to do it in the least number of connections, but to do it with style and with obscure connections. If you need examples, check out our previous Hemmings Six Degrees of Automotive Separation Challenges.



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Six Degrees of Automotive Separation: Matford and Walter

| понедельник, 10 августа 2009 г.

1914 Mercer Model 35J Raceabout

Okay, the last couple of Hemmings Six Degrees of Automotive Separation Challenges provided some quick shortcuts, but we can almost guarantee that you’ll need at least five connections to link our choices for this week: Matford and Walter.

The former should be familiar to early Ford enthusiasts as the vestigal effort of Ford Motor Company to expand into France. The latter should be familiar to any truck enthusiast, especially one that hangs around airports and pays attention to the crash response vehicles and snowplows. Of course, the photo above, of a car familiar to longtime readers of the Hemmings Auto Blog, depicts neither, but should provide a clue to solve this little puzzle.

The rules, as before, are simple: A connection consists of one company owning another, merging with another or sharing another’s parts. Explain your connections, and as before, the point isn’t necessarily to do it in the least number of connections, but to do it with style and with obscure connections.

Oh, and one caveat: You may not use Ford as a connection. That would make things just too easy, wouldn’t it?



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We will indeed take suggestions for the Hemmings Six Degrees of Automotive ...

| вторник, 7 июля 2009 г.

how many degrees of separation lie between Bugatti and Willys?

We will indeed take suggestions for the Hemmings Six Degrees of Automotive Separation Challenge, and this week’s challenge originated as a suggestion by Kit Foster a few weeks ago: How many degrees of separation do you need to connect Bugatti to Willys?

Unless, of course, Kit’s sarcasm got stuck in the tubes between his computer and ours, we can see two ways to link the two in as few as four connections and one way to link the two in two connections.

The rules, as before, are simple: A connection consists of one company owning another, merging with another or sharing another’s parts. Explain your connections, and as before, the point isn’t necessarily to do it in the least number of connections, but to do it with style and with obscure connections.

Hopefully Kit will chime in shortly to reveal his answers. We’ll reveal ours later on in the afternoon.



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