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Sometimes You Just Get Lucky

By Bob Smith

206 Chestnut Street, Slatington, PA 18080.

Bob and engine before cleanup.

After cleanup.

I remember the first time I saw her- my heart skipped a beat. I knew right then and there that I had to have her. No, I'm not talking about a woman but a 3 HP Domestic side-shaft gas engine.

My dad, also Bob Smith, has had engines for about 20 years, but they never really interested me. At least, not until I went with him to a show at Kinzers three years ago and saw my first Domestic engine. I knew then that I had been bitten by the bug. That same fall I found and restored a 1½ HP Domestic with a mud pump on it. Time to start looking for another one!

I always check the "for sale" ads in the GEM and the newspaper ads and sales. Early this past June there was a public sale ad in our local paper...

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