[Fot] 25th Anniversary of the FOT 2021

[DAVE HOGYE]

I didn't scour on trash day, but there was a construction site close by and the portable concrete mixer's 8HP engine grew legs and ended up in my minibike.  I don't know how it got in there either, because it barely fit.  I had the fastest minibike in town. 
Dave H. 

>     On 12/31/2020 6:12 AM fubog1 via Fot <fot at autox.team.net> wrote:
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>     Ok so how many others used to get up extra early on trash pickup day and scour the neighborhood for junk reel lawnmowers [Wink]?
>     Glen
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>     From: Duncan Charlton via Fot <fot at autox.team.net>
>     To: Gary Schneider <garygret at sbcglobal.net>
>     Cc: fot at autox.team.net <fot at autox.team.net>; fubog1 <fubog1 at aol.com>
>     Sent: Thu, Dec 31, 2020 8:38 am
>     Subject: Re: [Fot] 25th Anniversary of the FOT 2021
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>     I discovered the same as Gary did with the Tecumseh engine on my Rupp go-kart when I was 13 or 14.  After about a year of this the flywheel exploded, with the heavy magnet portion deciding to end its union with the rest of the lump.  I felt a big impact behind my right shoulder just before the engine suddenly lost power.  I was damned lucky that the chunk with the magnet (which must have weighed 2 or 3 lbs.) bounced off the steel tubing supporting the edge of the sheet metal seat pan, saving me from a serious injury.  I found the piece about 30 feet away in the grass.
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>     Duncan
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>     On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 10:39 PM Gary Schneider via Fot < fot at autox.team.net mailto:fot at autox.team.net > wrote:
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> >         Glen, that's great! My dad built me a go-kart out of plywood and an old reel lawnmower when I was around that size or a little bigger. I discovered my first speed mod: it went lots faster if you tied a string to the throttle and pulled it open past the governor. Turned out not for very long though, a big BANG clang-a-lang-a-lang after a few hot laps of the yard. My first motorized device and the first engine I blew up. Ungrateful little hellion. Fortunately there was no photographic evidence or body cams to capture the guilty look.
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> >         Gary Schneider
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> >         On Wednesday, December 30, 2020, 9:13:16 AM CST, fubog1 via Fot < fot at autox.team.net mailto:fot at autox.team.net > wrote:
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> >         Yes, yes, and yes.
> >         Glen Efinger
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> >         ps- here's my picture in advance, the 1st racecar I ever built, my brother John is driver.
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> >         [glensfirstracecar.jpg]
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