Rt. 1, Box 58, Kinsley, Kansas 67547.
This automobile is homemade; painted John Deere green with John
Deere yellow wheels, powered with a John Deere open flywheel, 1? HP
single cylinder water cooled gas engine. The chassis is a Model T
Ford, shortened 3 feet with the engine in the rear compartment and
on top of the frame. It has a 1951 Hudson radiator across the back
with thermo siphon cooling (no water pump); an old 4 cylinder
Chevrolet transmission with 3 forward speeds and reverse; a V belt
drive from the engine to a jack shaft, and uses a belt tightener
idler pulley for a clutch. These is a chain and 2 sprokets off of a
Baldwin combine going from the jack shaft to the front end of the
transmission; another chain and 2 sprokets off of a Massey Harris
combine going from the rear end of the transmission to the Model T
Ford differential.
I took the Model T ring gear off of the spider cage and put the
Massey Harris sproket on in its place; cut 2 holes in the Model T
differential housing for the chain to pass through. It has Model T,
30 x 3? wooden wheels with hard rubber tires. The tiller bearings
are from a horse drawn B & O ridge buster, and right hand
controls.
The brake pedal is from a 1927 Buick, the lever on the right
hand outside is the clutch control lever and is from a B & O
horse drawn ridge buster. It has a Cushman Motor Scooter carburetor
on it so that I have throttle control–does not use a governor
control. Use a 2 gallon oil tank from a furnace to supply gasoline
to the Cush-man carburetor.
I removed the John Deere ‘make and break’ spark plug and
made an adapter plate and use a Model T spark plug and a Model T
coil and hot shot for ignition, the points of which are from an old
toaster.
Have a Model T crank on the right side to start the engine; a
Model T type choker wire below and aft of the crank to get the
engine started. I gave $1.00 for the engine and 25 gallows of
roofing stain at a farm sale.
I installed a crankcase breather in the hole where the magneto
drive was; use Phillips Trop Artic oil in it, and I never have to
add oil. It has a buggy step on each side, wagon type brakes
controlled from the Buick brake pedal. I have a throttle and spark
and ignition switch under the right front edge of the seat, so that
I can have my right hand on the throttle most of the time. The
Buick clutch pedal is hoped up as a foot feed. The seat is wood
painted black to look like leather. The body sides are
Masonite.
I have driven it hundreds of miles in the last 3 or 4 years in
parades and up and down country roads and haven’t had a speck
of trouble with it. It will go most anywhere you want to go, but I
haven’t tried to get it licensed.