Jun/Jul 2008

Subscribe Now

Engine 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.

My Not-So-Economical ECONOMY

By Elliott Domans Jr

10 Babbitt Road Mendham, New Jersey 07945

I guess everyone who has ever bought an old iron gas engine has a story about how they found it rusting in a field, or sitting for years in an old barn, and how they got it for next to nothing just so the farmer's widow could get rid of the old thing. Well, my story is nothing like any of those, because my story starts with a love of old one-lung hit and miss engines that goes back to years of visiting the Kutztown Folk Festival in Kutztown, Pennsylvania.

Every July my wife and I would eagerly await the Kutztown Folk Festival knowing that my wife Carol (who's an avid quilter) would walk through the huge barn loaded with handmade quilts, and I would try to catch the hit and miss engine demonstrations of threshing and log sawing. Carol always saw the quilts, but somehow I always got to the engine demonstrati...

802 of 4246 characters shown.

 

To access the full article you must have Gas Engine Magazine: The Complete Archives on compact disk.

Learn how you can own the complete Gas Engine Magazine archives.

Exclusive Online Offer!


 

 Pay Now & Save 50% Off the Cover Price

Yes, send me one year of Gas Engine Magazine! I'll pay just $33.00.

Save Even More Money By Paying NOW!

Pay now with a credit card and take advantage of our Square-Deal automatic renewal savings plan. You save an additional $3.00 and get one year of Gas Engine Magazine for only $30.00 (USA only).


Canadian subs: 1 year, $41.00 (includes postage & GST), foreign subs: 1 year, $62.75. U.S. funds.

First Name:   
*
Last Name:   
*
Address:  
*
City:  
*
State/Province:
Zip/Postal Code:  
*
Country:
*
Email:   
*

Promotion Code:

 

- Bill Me offers valid in the United States only.
 
Copyright 2008, All Rights Reserved | Ogden Publications, Inc., 1503 SW 42nd St., Topeka, Kansas 66609-1265
Natural Home Magazine • Farm Collector • Gas Engine Magazine • Steam Traction • Herb Companion • Herbs for Health
Grit Magazine • Capper's Magazine • Good Things to Eat • Brave Hearts • Mother Earth Organic Coffee and Tea
Motorcycle Classics Magazine • Mother Earth News • Utne Reader • Ogden Publications • EarthMoment
Privacy Policy | Career Opportunities | XHTML | CSS | phpThumb | smarty | ADOdb | Generated in 0.02 seconds