Hot-rod as a hobby and just grows on the individual. Some have found that they can buy the basics for just a few hundred dollars; but add $9OO-a-piece tires and a few tricks to the engine, and you’ve got a few thousand dollars invested. Some admit they have ap proximately $lO,OOO m their screaming, smoke-belching rigs. (Continued from Page 14( Bylvania Tractor Pul , ers Ado,” “One to Go,” “The Association, which sponsors Sting,” “Glory Seeker,” and sanctions most pulls in “Deere Power I,” “Running the area, has approximately Bear,” “The Canadian 75 members, not all of them Hauler,” and “Chitty-Chitty active. Most became m- Bang-Bang.” The Southeastern Penn terested in it after seeing a pull elsewhere. It starts out Wright’s “Glory Seeker,” one of the best known tractors in the is equipped with a 436 cubic inch engine which develops between 850 and 1000 hor sepower at 5000 rpm. Two turbos and an in-line fuel pump help deliver the extra power needed to perform as a winner. Tractor Pulling Contest Fri.. June 18,1976 ' 7.00 P.M. Tractors. — _ Out of Field Class Prize 1 I Money Tf?/I Lmmm $210.00 Per Class I / |5 Classes! 5500,7500, 1 * * I 10.000 & 13,000 & 17,000 1 \ . f Also Modified and Super W I Stock Categories 1 VfM f For More Information Wmmml Call (215(756 6937 or 756 6938 Rain Dates: June 19th & 20th • Kempton Country Fair - Watch for I full ad on May 29 & Junes. David Becker’s “Hot Rod Lincoln” is equipped with two Ford engines which have a combined total of 920 cubes and a power potential of close to 1000 horsepower. Brubaker, who serves as president of SEPTPA, says he uses big fuel pumps from a Mack truck. A pump with a 60 gallon per hour capacity wasn’t adequate, he added. TRACTOR PULL FLEMINGTON FAIRGROUNDS Remington, N.J He’s pushing ten times the normal amount of fuel through it and mixing it with 10 tunes the amount of air. Consequently, “it would burn up” if he left it run too long. For this reason, pullers generally shut their engines down right away and prefer tp be pulled around by others if a lot of extra movement is necessary. As one who’s been around farm machinery all his life, Brubaker says he does most of the work himself, while an implement dealer helps with the “fine things.” Basically the same is true of most others. Flowers, for example, does everything himself except some of the engme work. Harry Greist, Chester Countian who regularly pulls m the area, says his tractor puts out about 935 hor sepower, according to a computer. Anything above seven or eight hundred I’d let ’em guess, he added, figuring that at that kind of rated power the difference isn’t too great any more. Other critical factors aside Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 15,1976—15 Sporting a black beard and Mountaineer hat, "Woody” Flowers has become one of the best known tractor pullers in the East. Last year he was voted "Most Popular Puller” in southeastern Pennsylvania, where he has delighted fans for the past five years. sv OS’* - ' ' % - s 'v^ s' N ss s ssvssss '<s s ' Flemington Fairgrounds Rt. 31, North of Flemington {J Sanction Pull (Penna. Tractor Pullers Assoc.) Closses 5.000 9.000 7.000 7.000 5.000 9.000 Super Stock Super Stock Rt. 31 Modified Super Stock Modified Open Class 201-782-5696 717-354-8600 sbooo.oo PlJ,se Coming July 14-15 Biggest Pull Ever Held in New Jersey. Friday, June 4 7;30 P.M. ❖.5% s- ' > s *■ v*-•• CLASS A PTPA WRITE: MORE INFORMATION >■■ 'f -i*-, ' ' Flemington Fairgrounds Flemington, NJ. 08822 \X's >. .> V MS Fiemington Fairgrounds - Top Tractors in Nation - Don't miss the All NTPA & PTPA rules will be enforced. Contestants must be PTPA Competing member. ,6000 °0 Pu,s e NTPA National Sanction from actual horsepower are let a few gallons of oil out of involved, the crankcase to make it. It Balance and weight are of worked, and he won. He’s uppermost importance, had one of the winningest Tractors pull in different tractors in the state for the weight classes, but can drop past five years, up or down in the classes by Flowers’ machine, an old adding or removing weights. 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