BRAINERD — Greg Olson returned to the Crow Wing County Fair this summer to showcase his antique hit-and-miss engines. Hit-and-miss engines get their name from how they regulate speed. When the engine ...

The original concept of combustion engines as we understand them dates as far back as the late 1800s. And while they are more or less a solved science today, they definitely didn't start that way.

FORT HUNTER – The distinctive poof, then snort, then poof, then snort again sounds of antique ‘hit-and-miss’ gasoline farm engines permeated the 45th Annual Antique Gas Engine & Tractor Show at the ...

Robert Jacobs of New Middletown has been bringing his antique hit-and-miss engines to the Canfield Fair since 1976. CANFIELD — Walking past the “Antique Tractors and Stationary Engines” tent in the ...

Devin Sheriff since has restored all seven engines and collected some of his own. He has between 30 and 35 stored throughout the family property. Like the vintage radios, the hit-and-miss engines were ...

NORTHBORO — People driving or walking by the WCD Garage on West Main Street early Sunday afternoon might have been wondering what kind of engines were being worked on. What sounded like backfiring ...