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C. H. Wendel
December/January 1999
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A. The engine was made in 1926. The color is Adirondack Green, comparable to DuPont 84155 or Ditzler 40496

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A Closing Word

With this issue we close out 34 years of Gas Engine Magazine, and beginning next month we open with our 35th Anniversary Issue. Ye olde Reflector is one of those persons who has received every single issue of GEM since the late Elmer Ritzman founded the magazine. In fact, we would suppose it was at the constant urging of people like myself, that GEM had its birth. In the mid 1960s gas engine collecting was really in its infancy, and there are many of us who must humbly confess that we stumbled over those 1?  HP John Deere engines for $5 or even a rare Maytag model for a couple of dollars. It was fairly easy to buy a magneto for five bucks or less . . . sometimes a whole box of magnetos and/or parts would fetch $5 or less at an auction. This writer once bought out the magneto department of a defunct repair shop; parts, equipment, a heavy press, and all for $ 150. We sold NOS magneto parts for five years! Things have changed since then!

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