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Mid Michigan | I've seen him pull those tractors dozens of times. He almost always won. Usually would show up by himself and load it all up on an old flatbed trailer with GMC astro pulling the two tractors around. One night at a pull in Ithaca he blew a rod in the old allison so he took it out and ran with 11 cylinders and still won his class. Watched him take that double ugly tractor around the Ionia Free Fair race track one night at about 60 mph in the dark. He got done pulling and they unhooked him and he opened it up around the backstretch on the way back to the pits. Had the whole crowd laughing. I remember seeing him coming through St. Johns Mi. one night at about 2am with that Astro and the two tractors and read in the paper he had been out to LA California with the two tractors and had won the world championship with them. He lived by Ithaca Mi on a farm that had a lot of gadgets out in the fields around the place sitting in the weeds. I've driven by there many times. He sold a friend of mine two of those allison engines. I think he still has them. I guess his latest endevor was building and designing jet powered snow melting machines for municiple use. Defenitely was one smart dude. | |
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Tractor pulling legend
