Cub Cadet Lawn Tractor Powered By A V-8 Engine

Cub Cadet Lawn Tractor Powered By A V-8 Engine FARM HOME Lawn Mowers (31h,38) 19-1-7 You've never seen a garden tractor like this "Spare Time" tractor built by a Missouri lawn and garden equipment dealership. Employees souped up the Cub Cadet with a 350 cu. in. V-8 Chevy engine. "We had the engine and tractor sitting around the shop, and we just sort of built it as a joke," explains J.R. Bushdiecker, parts manager at Banner Equipment, St. Charles, Mo., and creator of the vehicle. "Because we did it for fun, we call it our `Spare Time." Getting the big Chevy engine in the Cub Cadet wasn't as big a job as you'd imagine, according to Bushdiecker. "We just solid-mounted it," he says. "We had to raise the hood 2 in. to get it in and stretch the frame 15 in. to make it look right." At two county fairs last summer "Spare Time" pulled a 5,000-1b. garden tractor sled the full length of a 250-ft. and 280-ft. track. "The reason we took it to the fairs was to advertise Banner Equipment and as a conversation piece," Bushdiecker says, adding "there definitely was a lot of conversation about it." Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, J.R. Bushdiecker, Banner Equipment, 1513 N. 2nd St., St. Charles, Mo. 63301 (ph 314 946-6960).

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