His first whirligig, which he built while he was overseas during WWII, was stolen.
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He farmed and moved houses with trucks before opening the machine shop that eventually became whirligig central.
The Vollis Simpson Whirligig Park is scheduled to open in November in Wilson, about 10 miles from his home.
He started on his first whirligig at home in the early 1980s and spent about 10 years building other large ones.
The Lexus' whirligig is familiar from the Toyota Camry and Avalon hybrids: a lean-burning Atkinson-cycle, 2.5-liter in-line four-cylinder (156 hp) coupled with two electric motors, one a 141-hp traction motor, the other a starter-generator.
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