[SEL] Illusive Mogul

[Mark Shulaw]

Hate to say it, but I liked it better before they painted it. Still a 
great engine.   Mark


At 10:21 AM 9/6/2009, you wrote:
>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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Mark Shulaw
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Bluffton, OH. 45817
USA

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