MODEL T SNOWMOBILE

INTRO- WITH SOME SNOWMOBILE TRAILS ALREADY CLOSING, AN ALDER CREEK MAN HAS A SOLUTION...AND IT’S A NINETY EIGHT YEAR OLD ONE. PHOTOJOURNALIST KEITH HUNT HAS THIS STORY. PKG. LOCATOR-FORESTPORT WITH WHIPPING WINDS AND BLOWING SNOW THIS PAST WEEKENDS, THE ONLY VEHICLES OUT AND ABOUT WERE PLOWS... AND MR. PFENDLER.. 3:44 ERIC PFENDLER , FORD T OWNER WELL BACK IN THE DAYS WHEN HORSE AND BUGGYS COULDN’T GET AROUND, THIS IS WHAT THEY COME UP WITH. THE SKIS ARE THE SAME WIDTH AS A HORSE AND BUGGY WITH WHEELS SO EVERYONE COULD STAY ON THE TRACKS. OLD TIMERS THOUGHT OF A FEW THINGS. IN 1917 VIGIL WHITE RECEIVED A PATENT FOR THIS MODIFICATION OF THE FORD MODEL T AND DOCTORS, MAIL CARRIERS AND FIREFIGHTERS WERE OFF AND SLEDDING! 1;30 YOU HAVE THIS EXTRA AXLE AND THAT IS GONNA TURN BACK WHEN YOU PUT THE TRACKS ON. TIGHTEN IT UP AND THEN SPECIAL METAL SPINDLES FOR THE FRONT FOR THE SKIS AND ONCE YOU GET THAT HOOKED UP.. THE SKY’S THE LIMIT!! NAT SOT WITH A QUICK KICK AND THE SPUTTER OF THE FOUR CYLINDERS, YOUVE GOT TO BE READY FOR THE LOOKS. 3;33 YOU GET A LOT OF SMILES I TELL YA. ITS LIKE YOU TOLD A FUNNY JOKE!! BUT ITS NO JOKE THOUGH. THE TOP SPEED WITH THE TRACKS IS 18 MILES PER HOUR.. 4;11 OH THIS IS LICENSED FOR THE ROAD. THAT'S WHY I'M OUT TODAY. THE TRAILS ARE CLOSED AND ITS TIME TO GET THIS OUT. AND WHEN THE SNOW FINALLY FADES AWAY.. 5;25 I TAKE THE TRACKS OFF IN THE SUMMERTIME AND TAKE THIS TO THE LUMBER YARD. SO ITS NOT JUST A YEAR ROUND GET AROUND TRUCK, ITS SIMPLE TOO!.. 5;43 THERE'S NO CHECK ENGINE LIGHT ON THIS MACHINE. BUT IT DOES BREAK ON OCCASION...LIKE HERE AT SCOOTERS IN FORESTPORT.... KEITH HUNT FOR NEWS CHANNEL 2