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By H. Upshur,

290 Apple Tree Drive, Media, Pennsylvania 19063

Back when I was a boy in early high school down on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, the fascination of motors had already begun to possess me. Trucks, tractors, farm gasoline engines or boat engines of that period were all fairly familiar; however, outboard motors, motorcycles and airplanes were quite scarce there and so I would walk or hitchhike a good distance to examine such.

Naturally in a country high school the FFA (Future Farmers of America) courses taught were popular with boys, since many of them aspired to follow the plow as had their fathers. Though my father was a farmer, some early revolt within grew into a distaste for the farmer's life and a more intense love of mechanical things. However, in addition to the courses dealing with better pig and corn raising, the FFA program offered two years of agricult...

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