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RESTORATION: A Look To The Future

By Fred De Santis

3631 Clearview Drive, Corinth, Texas 76205

Late one evening after coming in from looking over my old Maytag out in the shed, I was trying to decide how far to go with the restoration. I started to think about how lucky I am to have old engines around to work on. We, as a generation of engine enthusiasts, are here at the perfect time: we can still find engines that are fresh from the farm. Some are rusted, some stuck, some run. In the future, it won't be like that because we, as a group, are buying them all up. And that's good, because we are saving them for the future but, as we buy these engines and restore them, let's think about the collectors twenty years from now. Will they only be able to buy restored engines, all painted up and ready to run?

Let's leave something for them. They should be entitled to do a little sandblasting and hunting down parts. ...

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