MODEL T SNOWMOBILE

INTRO- WITH SOME SNOWMOBILE TRAILS ALREADY CLOSING, AN ALDER CREEK MAN HAS A IT’S A NINETY EIGHT YEAR OLD ONE. PHOTOJOURNALIST KEITH HUNT HAS THIS STORY. PKG. LOCATOR-FORESTPORT WITH WHIPPING WINDS AND BLOWING SNOW THIS PAST WEEKENDS, THE ONLY VEHICLES OUT AND ABOUT WERE PLOWS... AND MR. PFENDLER.. 3:44 ERIC PFENDLER , FORD T OWNER WELL BACK IN THE DAYS WHEN HORSE AND BUGGYS COULDN’T GET AROUND, THIS IS WHAT THEY COME UP WITH. THE SKIS ARE THE SAME WIDTH AS A HORSE AND BUGGY WITH WHEELS SO EVERYONE COULD STAY ON THE TRACKS. OLD TIMERS THOUGHT OF A FEW THINGS. IN 1917 VIGIL WHITE RECEIVED A PATENT FOR THIS MODIFICATION OF THE FORD MODEL T AND DOCTORS, MAIL CARRIERS AND FIREFIGHTERS WERE OFF AND SLEDDING! 1;30 YOU HAVE THIS EXTRA AXLE AND THAT IS GONNA TURN BACK WHEN YOU PUT THE TRACKS ON. TIGHTEN IT UP AND THEN SPECIAL METAL SPINDLES FOR THE FRONT FOR THE SKIS AND ONCE YOU GET THAT HOOKED UP.. THE SKY’S THE LIMIT!! NAT SOT WIT
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