Oct 17, 2023
It's time for the new puzzler.
For this one, you have to use your imagination. Imagine it is many years ago, and you overhear a conversation happening near you. You hear your neighbors talking.
Okay here's what you overheard.
"Boy, it was a great machine and the Ford dealers sold me the deluxe model for only $1 more."
And then later on in the conversation you hear, "So then I would go back to the Ford dealership where I would buy the fuel for only five cents a pound."
What are they talking about?
And the hint is you couldn't get this at your Chevrolet dealer, or your Buick dealer.
Good luck.
So what were they talking about? What was it that they got from the Ford dealership, all those years and years ago? The Deluxe model for $1 more?
And the fuel for this thing costs just five cents a pound back then?
And the hint was you couldn't get this at your Chevrolet dealer or your Buick dealer.
Here is the answer.
The biggest hint was that it was the Ford dealership they were talking about. So, Henry Ford was a notorious cheapskate, as they call it. Very focused on making money and not spending it. He was famous for it. Anyway, Henry Ford had a lumber operation where they used to make wood panels for the station wagons.
Now being the cheapskate that he was, he hated to see scrap wood go to waste. So he would take the leftovers and had them made into charcoal briquettes.
So, having this extra product, Ford had grills made and then forced the dealerships to sell them. And back then it was $2 for the cheap grill and $3 for the Deluxe grill. And the charcoal briquettes were five cents a pound. And they did this at Ford dealerships until like the mid 1940s.
Good one.
