Six Degrees of Automotive Separation – Bacon!

Why, why, why, why, haven’t I thought of this until now? In all the months we’ve been playing the Hemmings Six Degrees of Automotive Separation Challenge, we’ve yet to work the Bacon in there. Not Kevin Bacon, but the product of the Bacon Motors Corporation, an actual company named after Frank W. Bacon based first in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1901, then later in New Castle, Pennsylvania, in 1919-1920. Frank only built about seven cars the first time around and a nominal amount (too few to find a proper photograph of one) the second time around before he bought the farm, but we thank him, because we can now play the Six Degrees of Bacon game.

Obscure? Of course. But with a little digging, I can easily come up with connections to Stearns-Knight, Indian, Peerless, Duesenberg and GM. So let’s see how you can do. This week’s challenge is a fox-and-hound format, so whoever chimes in first gets to suggest an auto company that the rest of you have to link to Bacon in six degrees or less. Whoever answers that in six degrees or less gets to suggest a new company, and so on. This week, please be sporting and refrain from suggesting impossibly obscure companies, but make it interesting.

(By the way, on a Six Degrees-related topic, our friends at BigLorryBlog have got in the act with their own truck-related version of the Six Degrees of Automotive Separation game. So far they’ve posited Kalmar and Iveco, Pegaso and Modec, and Scammell and Hanomag. No Bacon yet, though!)