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Portland,
Indiana
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Tri-State Gas
Engine and Tractor
Show
August
1998
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Some of the ATIS
members at Portland, and a few other spots:
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ATIS founder Spencer Yost, left, receiving one of
the
"ATIS Boxes"
from Steve Sewell. Paul Bazzetta conceived the idea of the
ATIS
boxes
as a way for list members to show their appreciation to Spencer and as
a means for bringing people together. He built this box,
packed
it
with a compact camera and a manual for Spencer's newly-acquired John
Deere,
and sent it on its way around the country. List members
carried
it
from state to state over the course of several months, and other boxes
traveled through other regions of the US and the world.
Several
of
them were brought to Portland and presented at last to Spencer. |
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Ron Chew, who traveled all the way to Indiana
from
Washington (state),
presenting Spencer with the Western box.
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Jim Becker and Bob Seith |
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Marshall Heckaman, George Willer, Herbert Metz
(in red
cap), Hank Wessell
(in green JD hat), Gene Waugh, Ron Chew, and Cecil Monson at one of the
ATIS gatherings. |
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Ted Griffin and George Willer. |
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Bret Rochotte's sons Aaron and Marc on his
beautifully
restored unstyled
B. |
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Spencer on his Pacer, burning out the bearings
(almost
:-) in the show's
dynamometer. |
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Steve Sewell's Minneapolis-Moline BF, and Bret
Rochotte
walking past
his John Deere B. |
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My son Jordan, six years old and a faithful
Moline fan, helping Steve mount the fenders on the BF a few weeks prior
to the Portland show.
Steve's grandfather operated an MM dealership in Albany, Ohio, and this
BF was
one of the tractors he sold. Steve rescued it from years of
slowly
rusting away and sinking into the mud, and brought it back to like-new
perfection. (Spencer helped Steve with some of the engine
work
while researching his book, The
Antique Tractor Bible). |
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Most of Steve's MM collection: A 445, a
Z, an R,
and the BF (not
quite finished in this photo). (Okay, this picture wasn't
taken
at
Portland, but Steve is likely to bring some or all of these tractors to
Portland at some point). Sound
files of these and other tractors starting up. |
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