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Pietenpol-List: I love my job....sometimes

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Original Posted By: Jim Markle
List,Normally my company does not send me around the country, but I do go onoccasion. Last time they sent me to East Texas, I ended up buying a lot onan airstrip, thanks to Piet Builder, Robert Caldwell!This time I went to Indiana. After putting out the Word that I was lookingfor local Pietenpolers, I got a few responses, and chose the closest one tothe town where I was working. It was about an hour's drive to Elizabethtown,very near Columbus, Indiana. After GPS'ing my way down the country roads, Iturned into a driveway, up a hill, and one glance thru the open barn doorstold me I was at the right address.There sat Larry Morlock's almost done Piet! Larry Morlock 1.jpg Larry Morlock 4.jpgBesides the interesting fact that Larry's Piet now sports Douwe's old 'A'engine.Larry Morlock 2.jpgIt also has a somewhat interesting history: Larry bought it as a project in'92, although certain aspects of the plane led him to believe that itactually had some air time. It's an earlier version, with external aileroncables, but the former owner had died in an auto accident, and no one seemedto know anything about the plane. We can give Larry a little slack fortaking so long to get to this point, as he also owns a V-duster, and aBonanza. He has been to Brodhead, and many of you have probably met him, andmay know that he is very proud of having retired from Cummins Diesel, and heis equally proud of the philanthropic benefit that Cummins has had to hishometown, Columbus, Ind. Although he did not show me any airstrip lots forsale, he did show me the oldest ice cream parlor in Columbus, close to 100yrs old!Larry Morlock 10.jpg Larry Morlock 6.jpgLarry's last words, as we exited the barn, were, "You didn't Markleanything, did you?" I explained that, if I had, and admitted it, it wouldn'tbe Markle-ing.GaryCool, Ca.________________________________________________________________________________Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 23:45:04 -0400 (GMT-04:00)
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Original Posted By: TOM STINEMETZE
Believe it or not, I have thought about putting a Cummins diesel in a Pietenpol. They have a 3.3 liter engine, same displacement and similar size as a Model A engine, 65 HP @ 2600 rpm, but very heavy (and expensive). It probably could be done - but not by me! Larry ----- Original Message -----
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Re: Pietenpol-List: passing through

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Original Posted By: JOSEPH SWITHIN
Hi Joe,You are already fitting nicely into this group. You know you are one of us when you start quoting lines from The Great Waldo Pepper ;o)........."passing through, just passing through"..............(Axel Olsson, waving his arm, when Waldo showed up at "his" party)Dan HelsperPuryear, TN-----Original Message-----
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Could it be dry-sumped and mounted upside down?Jeff Boatright________________________________________
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