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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. |
Sole SurvivorIt's Been a Life of Leisure for this Root & Vandervoort, the Only R&V Marine KnownBy Dick WellsKenny and Joyce Lage pose with the Root & Vandervoort. Most gas engines spend their entire work lives ... working. They were purchased as labor saving devices to replace the hard work of pumping water, shelling corn, grinding grain or sawing wood around a farmstead. If they're lucky enough to survive to the present time they may end up looking better, but they still work at pumping water, shelling corn, grinding grain or sawing wood at a gas engine show. Not so with Kenny and Joyce Lage's 1912 3HP vertical Root & Vandervort marine engine, serial number CM2084. Eighty years ago, this engine was set up powering a 20-foot, wooden Chris-Craft of boat that motored along the Mississippi River. Today, it still supplies power, but now for a kid... 820 of 6150 characters shown.
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