Little Wonder Lives Again
Every year on Fathers’ Day weekend, the Eastern Idaho Chapter of Vintage Car Club of America hosts a popular car show and swap meet at the Idaho Falls’ City Park. Most years, several of us local rusty engine enthusiasts take the opportunity to display a variety of hit-and-miss engines, popping and smoking, turning the old-time equipment — pumps, burr mills, etc. The noise and smoke of these old engines is a popular attraction at the show. Curious folks gather around the safety barriers taking photos and videos. We rusty object nuts patiently explain to the onlookers what these strange and noisy contraptions are and what they were used for. We repeatedly answer, “No, these are not steam engines with the water vapor rising from the hoppers cooling the gas engines.”
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