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Article: On your mark get set MOW Fairbury Fairgrounds to host lawn mower races
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- The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL
- Article date:
- August 14, 2005
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FAIRBURY -- Detroit may be the Motor City, but Fairbury will be
the Mow-tor City when the Illinois Lawn Mower Racing Association cuts
through this Central Illinois town on Thursday.
Mower categories begin with a stock class that consists of common
riding lawn mowers with the blades removed. Higher classes permit
more modifications, and machines with names like the Batmowbile,
Mowron, Turfinator and Yankee Clipper reach speeds of 90 mph.
Top speeds of 40- to 50 mph are more common on racetracks which
average about one-eighth of a mile.
The association's president is Tony Lewis, 60, a retired
mechanically inclined oil refinery superintendent who rebuilds
Corvette parts at his home in Willow ...