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Jun/Jul 2008Subscribe NowEngine videos online! Check out the GEM video index on YouTube, the quickest way to find gas engine videos on the Internet. We’ve done the searching, all you have to do is the watching! Click below for GEM engine video index. |
Engine Hunting Along the Bayous of LouisianaBy Robert Mayeux2204 Comanche Street, Sulphur, Louisiana 70663 It was early on a July morning on a foggy, slow running Atchafalaya River, that we launched our home made Mercedes Ben dieselpowered houseboat for our annual old engine hunt. As we slowly made our way down this deep South Louisiana river, we passed a group of wild deer grazing along the edge under the watchful eye of a large alligator lying nearby. Around the next bend we came upon an old fisherman's camp. We stopped, and with both a French and English conversation with the 65yearold fisherman, we had some items for barter. He produced, out in the swamp near his camp, a 1919 4 HP one cylinder marine engine that he had junked many years ago. He had replaced it with one of those new fangled outboards that he has to cuss out to get started. With money in his hand and "a smile... 802 of 2830 characters shown.
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