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14 YEAR OLD COLLECTOR

By Brad Bellm

170-E Poplar Ridge Road, Alexandria, Kentucky 41001

Your article in the January-February 1982 magazine on page 30 entitled "My Collection", which was written by a 14-year-old named Chris Barth, prompted me to write. I, too, am 14 years old and I've been going to engine shows since I was five years old. By the time I was six or seven, my dad purchased a 2 HP "Hired Hand" engine manufactured by Associated, which I quickly set claim to. To this date my family and I have 16 engines, two pumps, seven antique cars and five tractors.

In my own collection I have a 1943 Toro tractor, the Hired Hand mentioned above, a 3 HP Witte engine, a 4 HP Famous IHC, and I am half owner of a 1935 B John Deere with my dad. Of course, my dad and grandpa help me with my machinery all the time, but I decide which engines to take to the shows.

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