Wow, what a streak! Soon there won't even be room for you to *sleep* in the garage!
I found a black kettle of the same vintage, I think it was a freebie 'F' or 'G', that had the same combination of twist ash and clips. I thought it was obviously frankensteined, but the experts around the WKC set me straight: apparently there were a few years where the kettles had both belts and suspenders.