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Puzzles, Games and Name That Car => Solved AutoPuzzles => 2011 => Topic started by: Ray B. on March 28, 2011, 04:08:07 PM

Title: Whuzzat #16 - Edsel Ford on horseback, 1915
Post by: Ray B. on March 28, 2011, 04:08:07 PM
Who is this rough rider? And what is his connection with automobiles?

One point if you can tell us. Another point if, by chance, you can complete the story by telling who is the lady he lassoed (or the opposite - I have no idea myself).

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Title: Re: Whuzzat #16
Post by: Ray B. on April 09, 2011, 09:42:43 AM
Experts?
Title: Re: Whuzzat #16
Post by: Ray B. on April 10, 2011, 06:16:26 AM
I might add that his connection with cars is a double one.
Title: Re: Whuzzat #16
Post by: Ray B. on April 20, 2011, 11:12:25 AM
Let's see what the pros make of this.
Title: Re: Whuzzat #16
Post by: barrett on April 21, 2011, 03:45:07 AM
was he an actor?
Title: Re: Whuzzat #16
Post by: Ray B. on April 21, 2011, 05:04:42 AM
No. His main business was cars, just cars.
Title: Re: Whuzzat #16
Post by: Otto Puzzell on April 21, 2011, 05:20:40 AM
Is that Ned Jordan?
Title: Re: Whuzzat #16
Post by: Ray B. on April 21, 2011, 10:16:50 AM
No, but elegance is a word that applied to him also.
Title: Re: Whuzzat #16
Post by: woodinsight on April 21, 2011, 10:49:18 AM
From the USA I presume.....
Title: Re: Whuzzat #16
Post by: Ray B. on April 21, 2011, 12:54:21 PM
I've seen people in that kind of attire in other parts of the world, but not very often...
Yes.
Title: Re: Whuzzat #16
Post by: Otto Puzzell on April 21, 2011, 02:40:45 PM
EL Cord?
Title: Re: Whuzzat #16
Post by: Ray B. on April 21, 2011, 05:52:32 PM
I hear you getting closer.
Title: Re: Whuzzat #16
Post by: João on April 21, 2011, 06:08:06 PM
Harry C. Stutz ?
Title: Re: Whuzzat #16
Post by: Aaron65 on April 21, 2011, 07:30:18 PM
I'll throw in Howard Marmon just in case it isn't Stutz...  :)
Title: Re: Whuzzat #16
Post by: Otto Puzzell on April 21, 2011, 08:19:07 PM
Gordon Buehrig?
Title: Re: Whuzzat #16
Post by: Ray B. on April 22, 2011, 01:21:29 AM
Not Buehrig.

I seem to remember that some guy here at Autopuzzles signed his posts with an Almost everything I type can be a clue.

But then it was only to drive us mad.
Title: Re: Whuzzat #16
Post by: Wendax on April 22, 2011, 02:47:44 AM
Fred Duesenberg?
Title: Re: Whuzzat #16
Post by: Ray B. on April 22, 2011, 03:48:36 AM
No any of the Duesenberg Bros.
Title: Re: Whuzzat #16
Post by: Otto Puzzell on April 22, 2011, 04:45:14 AM
Charles Yale Knight, inventor of the the "Silent Knight" Sleeve Valve Engine?
Title: Re: Whuzzat #16
Post by: Ray B. on April 22, 2011, 08:39:16 AM
No. In most of the last guesses posted, I don't see where there is a double connection involved.
Title: Re: Whuzzat #16
Post by: Otto Puzzell on April 22, 2011, 01:34:27 PM
James Ward Packard?
Title: Re: Whuzzat #16
Post by: Ray B. on April 22, 2011, 05:03:43 PM
Not him either.
Title: Re: Whuzzat #16
Post by: Aaron65 on April 22, 2011, 05:29:57 PM
Quote from: Aaron65 on April 21, 2011, 07:30:18 PM
I'll throw in Howard Marmon just in case it isn't Stutz...  :)

??
Title: Re: Whuzzat #16
Post by: Ray B. on April 23, 2011, 03:23:20 AM
Sorry, Aaron, I forgot.
No him. But you're right about a point, as others here: Marmon, Stutz, Jordan, Duesenberg, etc, were automobile brands.
Title: Re: Whuzzat #16
Post by: Otto Puzzell on April 23, 2011, 03:44:15 AM
A young George N. Pierce?
Title: Re: Whuzzat #16
Post by: Allan L on April 23, 2011, 03:46:58 AM
Quote from: Otto Puzzell on April 23, 2011, 03:44:15 AM
A young George N. Pierce?
. . so perhaps if he is, she is Miriam Arrow. ;D
Title: Re: Whuzzat #16
Post by: Ray B. on April 23, 2011, 04:46:39 AM
Still on the right track, Otto.
I gave two clues, I cannot give anymore for the moment.
Title: Re: Whuzzat #16
Post by: Aaron65 on April 23, 2011, 08:52:24 AM
Wilfred Leland?
Title: Re: Whuzzat #16
Post by: neilshouse on April 23, 2011, 10:05:50 AM
Ransom Olds?
Title: Re: Whuzzat #16
Post by: Ray B. on April 23, 2011, 12:47:13 PM
Olds would fit the "double connection" more than this particular Leland. It's none of them yet.
Title: Re: Whuzzat #16
Post by: Aaron65 on April 23, 2011, 04:49:24 PM
I was thinking the double connection was working for Lincoln and Cadillac...maybe Henry Leland?
Title: Re: Whuzzat #16
Post by: Ray B. on April 25, 2011, 03:26:02 AM
No, not any Leland, but you're still close.
Title: Re: Whuzzat #16
Post by: Otto Puzzell on April 25, 2011, 04:55:23 AM
Walter P Chrysler worked at Buick before moving on to bigger things...
Title: Re: Whuzzat #16
Post by: Ray B. on April 25, 2011, 10:38:37 AM
Quote from: Ray B. on April 23, 2011, 03:23:20 AM

...you're right about a point, as others here: Marmon, Stutz, Jordan, Duesenberg, etc, were automobile brands.

And so is Chrysler, but it' not him
Title: Re: Whuzzat #16
Post by: Wendax on April 27, 2011, 11:34:15 AM
Louis Chevrolet?
Title: Re: Whuzzat #16
Post by: Ray B. on April 27, 2011, 04:26:02 PM
Where is his mustache? No, not him.

The circle narrows...
Title: Re: Whuzzat #16
Post by: Wendax on April 27, 2011, 04:30:19 PM
David Dunbar Buick?
Title: Re: Whuzzat #16
Post by: Ray B. on April 27, 2011, 04:33:37 PM
...and narrows
Title: Re: Whuzzat #16
Post by: Wendax on April 27, 2011, 04:40:01 PM
Henry Ford?


If it is him, he did it again  ;)
Title: Re: Whuzzat #16
Post by: Ray B. on April 27, 2011, 04:56:43 PM
Henry?
Title: Re: Whuzzat #16
Post by: Wendax on April 27, 2011, 05:03:15 PM
Edsel?
Title: Re: Whuzzat #16
Post by: Ray B. on April 27, 2011, 05:09:17 PM
Of course!
Double connection, at least since two brands of the group bore his name.
This is why, with "EL Cord", Otto was phonetically the closest, sofar.

The "cowboy picture" is from 1915. Here is another, taken in 1921.