What? the coolest thing I bought at the cedar rapids swap was a lawn mower!!

Some 56 Imperial taillights, a couple of rocket ship hood ornamenrs and a propellor instead of a blade... people will freak out when they see it flying around your yard.

 

You do know that there is a club for everything,,,yeah,,even antique lawn mowers. HRP

http://www.oldlawnmowerclub.co.uk/

 

this jake looks like it has the same engine.

 

Needs Wide Whites and spinners. Cool Find

 

ask my wife - she knows more about lawn mowers than i do - especially since she's the one that uses them

 

I would opt for the red metalflake,pinstripes and a bubble top.Maybe invert the motor(after polishing and satin chroming everything in sight) and chrome the blade so you can see it spin under the bubble.Chrome wheels with whitewalls and mini spyders too.

 

Is that the one that the gal was laughing about some fool paying $25 for just to pinstripe it and use at as lawn art? I saw a couple of cool mowers there that guys were dragging around.

 

I was thinkin' the same thing as Rickybop, headlight and tail light combo from a '56 Lincoln.
At first, I thought the deck like two chopped and elongated mailboxes mated to a space age hovercraft body.
Those looping around the rope and pulling for turning over the motor was tedious and time consuming. I remember as a kid trying to start my grandpa's mower; I hated that mower.

 

A mower with fins, KQQL.

 

Yep. It is neat. I like it.

 

The spark plug "grounder" is broken; that thing is unsafe. Best to let me take it off you hands, I'll pay the shipping. Butch/56sedandelivery.

 

dude, thats too cool!!!

 

No it's a Cogswell Cogs 99X LOL Cool mower

 

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I disagree.......red flake on the cover and tank........bead blast the engine and polish the edges of the fins........pearl white for the deck. and I do like the idea of lights fore and aft in those deck humps.
But it's your mower, and you have every right to tell me to piss off.

Roger

 

Oh crap! Now the market for lawn mowers is gonna go out of this world at the swaps. lol

 

I was expecting to see one of those hover mowers.

 

I'm pretty sure the motor is a clinton A400. They were famous for throwing rods.
Looking at the V shape on the deck , I'm guessing it's a murray.

 

Man, that's cool and the wheels aren't even broken off. About every mower I used when I was a kid, usually the thing that killed them was the wheels either went to crap or the handle broke. That one looks like it hit retirement in pretty good shape.

 

Hmmm...lets see...leave the patina, shoot some bullet holes in it, add some skulls and spider webs, cut off the handle and replace it with welded-links logging chains...

 

Mark, it kinda resembles a 56 Packard.

 

Be sure to post some pictures when you get it tricked out.

 

That
is simply
effing
kewl.

 

One word: BADASS! why don't they make cool stuff like this anymore?

 

You guys are something else. Could be a Jacobson or a Rio. Don't think it is a Clinton. hHg on to it. Would make a good conversation piece on your next car display

 

Nice snapper !

 

Did you see the Ford Sedan with the tree growing out of it???