[SEL] Illusive Mogul

[Mike Royster]

Good story, great pics!  Thanks Tom.

MR
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Germoamer at aol.com>
To: <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 06, 2009 10:21 AM
Subject: [SEL] Illusive Mogul


>A couple of years ago I mentioned that I had been tracking  leads of a big
> Mogul in a barn.  I finally found it by a phone call  from some 
> acquaintance
> who ended up buying it as it was an old family  engine.  They wanted me to
> come look it over and give my opinion if it was  worth what their family 
> was
> asking for it.  The brothers are mechanically  inclined, but did not know
> old engines.  They have worked on it for 2  years now and had it in pretty
> good condition.  Yesterday a friend and I  headed to their place to see 
> about
> starting it.  After some tinkering  with the ignitor, timing, and minor
> adjustments here and there, we had it  running for the first time in 40 
> years.
> It is a 12 hp, on original steel,  shed kept and in nice condition.
>
> The family had asked $3000 for it from the relatives that bought  it. When
> I asked how they arrived at $3000, they told me of a man  from West
> Virginia, (the engine is in Virginia), who came 2 times a year to  inquire 
> about
> buying it and he was the one who was offering $3000. Sometime  after the 
> family
> brothers bought it, the man from West Virginia came calling and  was told
> it was gone and sold.  They said you could see the madness in  his eyes,
> never spoke a word, and drove off.  Wonder why?
>
> Photo 1 is when I first saw the engine in the shed.
> Photo 6 and 7 are of it running.
>
> _http://www.oldengine.org/members/schmutz/images/mogul1.jpg_
> (http://www.oldengine.org/members/schmutz/images/mogul1.jpg)
>
> _http://www.oldengine.org/members/schmutz/images/mogul6.jpg_
> (http://www.oldengine.org/members/schmutz/images/mogul6.jpg)
>
> _http://www.oldengine.org/members/schmutz/images/mogul7.jpg_
> (http://www.oldengine.org/members/schmutz/images/mogul7.jpg)
>
> It was a great feeling to see it run and sure wish I could own it, but 
> that
> will never happen.
>
> Tom  Schmutz
> Concord,  Va.
> germoamer at AOL.com
>
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