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Master tinkerer Ernie Adams had always wanted a race car .
However , who has money for a race car ? Moreover , living in a little trailer park in Harvard , Nebraska at the time , he had no room to park one . So Adams , who has worked in a garage since age 16 , satisfied his longing by building his very own antique dwarf car .
Over the years , his hobby would snowball massively . Now 82 and retired , Adams has an entire fleet comprised of some 15 antique dwarf cars – including several race cars – all made by his hand .
No stranger to tinkering in the shop while growing up , Adams lived just a quarter mile from the city dump , which fed his hobby . “ That city dump was like a free department store for me ,” he told The Epoch Times .
“ At that time , they were taking gas washing machine motors off and putting electric on , and they ’ d throw the old motors in the dump .” There were old bicycle and wagon parts too , and he started deconstructing and reconstructing them and then selling his fully-functioning contraptions .
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“ I didn ’ t realise I was learning my trade back then ,” he said , adding that his learning to build his own vehicles in those days came easy , because “ time meant nothing , and there was no money involved .”
Thus , the young Adams started formulating an idea . He recalled an old refrigerator laying in the weeds by the train tracks near his childhood house , and a miniature car popped into his mind . “ I wanted an antique car and couldn ’ t afford one , didn ’ t have room for one . I picked up some refrigerators and built one ,” he said .
“ I saw it in my mind , you know ?” RACA
Source : The Epoch Times
The dwarf antique car Ernie Adams made out of refrigerators .
The Epoch Times
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