   
Dad built this beast about 1961. He took an old BMW Isetta three-wheeled car (the single front door opened toward you), removed the motorcycle engine, fabricated some aluminum skis and attached a Continental four-cylinder, 60 horsepower airplane engine, complete with propeller, to the rear of the vehicle. It was cold, noisy, dangerous (no prop guard) and went like a bat-out-of-hell, but didn't stop real well.
We moved to Gaylord from Lansing in the summer of 1960. The original cabin was a small two-bedroom affair that was in poor repair. Dad added on a new kitchen and dining area on the rear of house (over a new basement) as well as a garage and mud/storage room. He paid $3,400 for it in 1960 and it sold in 2000 for $75,000!
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