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Could I Build A Horseless Carriage?

By Vernon Silver

P.O. Box 65, Mountain Home, North Carolina 28758

This motor buggy was built by Vernon Silver.

I have always been fascinated with wagons, buggies and carriages. I have built several small wagons for my "hit & miss" engines and some goat wagons which turned out pretty nice, but I al ways wondered if I could build a Horse less Carriage. You never know until you try, do you ?

Not being sure how it would turn out, (and it was a pastime project so I didn't want to put much money into it), I decided to use all the used parts I could muster up. I had a Tecumseh 5 HP motor that came off a garden tiller and several other parts. I visited my older brother who runs a small engine repair shop and he gave me a transmission and differential oft a lawn tractor.

By this time I had some idea how it would l...

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