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Boy Meets Engine

By Tom Desaulniers

P.O. Box 1026 Leeds, Alabama 35094

Photos by Ed Brushac

Christinas, 1975. Clarksville, Arkansas. Driving out to the in-laws for the festivities. Driving along Highway 64, I see a junkyard. Junkyards always deserve a "look-see" for something of interest. This time it pays off. There, atop a neatly piled stack of scrap iron, are several spoked wheels of some sort. We pull in and I find the owner of the junkyard. 1 ask him what those wheels and Dig castings are. He is not sure, so I take a closer look. They look like some kind of old engine or compressor. There are two of them, and we agree on a price of $60 for the lot. Well, here I am, 500 miles from home and, as luck would have it, we are in the Honda Civic! He agrees to save them for me until I can get hack out to Arkansas with my trailer.

That is how I found a 1933 Fair...

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