No Pete, I was in the car industry for most of the time I worked - I'm retired now. Mowers were just something more or less interesting that sometimes had to be fixed (mainly because I mostly bought garbage ones that needed some TLC). I admire the B&S formula for building cheap, reliable, repairable engines. They have been moving in a different direction lately under competitive pressure from Honda and others, gradually making their engines more complicated. They probably have no real choice, especially for the commercial engines: OHV high compression engines with variable ignition timing use much less fuel than B&S's old formula of low compression side valve engines with fixed ignition timing.
