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Jun/Jul 2008Subscribe NowEngine 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. |
CHUG CHUG CHUGBy JANET ODELL Press Lifestyle Editor"The rich can afford to restore old autos, "says Robert Dobson, 1225 South Airport, Waterford Township. "My hobby is restoring old gas engines." Dobson, retired three years ago from General Motors, dresses in overalls, a checked shirt, bandana kerchief and straw hat when he shows off his engines. The particular one he showed us operates a wheat grinder. Most people who have grinders grind corn, says Dobson. But he decided on wheat. As a member of the Central Michigan Antique Tractor and Engine Club and the Early Day Gas Engine and Tractor Association, Dobson frequently attends their shows. They usually are held in the Midwest, but he has gone as far as Yorkton, Saskatchewan and Sarasota, Fla. The engine, which took 76 hours of work to restore, came from Morley, a small community near Grand Rapids. Dobson found th... 823 of 4800 characters shown.
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