Solved - The Dick Cheney connection

[Ray B.]

In your opinion, what could be the connection between this car and this energetic young man. It's not a direct one, and it's car-related.

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[Ray B.]

Let's see what the experts make of this.

[Tuckeroo]

Lusse Auto Scooter bumper car, (circa 1947-52ish?)  I own a circa 1959 Lusse    As for the man... 

[Ray B.]

Lusse Auto Scooter bumper car, (circa 1947-52ish?)  I own a circa 1959 Lusse    As for the man... 

Very precise!
Bumper car is enough for the connection you're looking for. And the man... remember, I wrote it's an indirect connection.

[max]

The picture seems too old, but the guy looks just as if he'll grow up into Lee Marvin.

[Ray B.]

The picture seems too old, but the guy looks just as if he'll grow up into Lee Marvin.

... who was born in 1924.

[Ray B.]

Let's see what the pros make of this.

[Ray B.]

That young man's attire is peculiar.

[Otto Puzzell]

Those gloves suggest he was working with something dangerous - chrome plating chemicals, perhaps?

[Ray B.]

Not chemicals, but follow the gloves it is

[Otto Puzzell]

Electrical insulation?

[Ray B.]

Not this. I am afraid you' ll have to keep guessing unless you find the full picture.

[Ray B.]

Speaking of pictures, I wrote that this was not a direct connection. The missing piece between those two is also a picture.

[João]

Gold related?

[Ray B.]

Money, somehow of course. Gold, not at all (I believe it's rust in the bumper-car picture).

[pnegyesi]

Was he working with scrap metal? And maybe the first picture shows something made out of scrap metal

[Oguerrerob]

Was this guy working with bumper cars in an amusement park?

[Ray B.]

It's a no to Oguerrerob suggestion. Scrap metal? Not as I know of. What is sure is that he had to protect his hands, and there are many jobs were it's a good thing.
This being an indirect connection means that you have to find something, or someone, in a third photo, related to both pictures.
Of course that would have been much easier if I hadn't cropped the photo of this young worker.

[pnegyesi]

Here's No2 in all its original glory


An oil field hand in Texas posing in his late Model T Ford roadster. It is equipped with a rack on the back for carrying tooling. In the background is what appears to possibly be a pair of FWD trucks with oil field equipment on the back.

Halliburton owned FWD truck company, so I believe we have to follow that route. Does this make any sense?

[Ray B.]

Well done!
Halliburton makes sense, as far as this puzzle is concerned. FWD and trucks don't.

[Otto Puzzell]

Halliburton is in the oil business, the puzzle car is electric?

[Otto Puzzell]

Or is the connection this picture of Dick Cheney?

[Otto Puzzell]

Lest a point be lost for not elaborating on the connection, Dick Cheney was chairman and CEO of Halliburton Company from 1995 to 2000. 

[Ray B.]

Of course! I don't know if you followed the Halliburton track, or the bumper car track. If you did that, the picture was on page 8.

Now here is another scary beast in a bumper car for your enjoyment...

[pnegyesi]

Glad to be of assistance Mr Puzzell