I read a book in the early 70’s. It was about a teen boy and his misadventures in a small town. It had a cover with a kids driving and old blue jalopy In the book. In One of the stories he gets a commercial propeller and puts it on a car to make a go faster. It flies loose and goes flying through the town, destroying things. I think the book had a white hardback cover, and the picture of the boy in the car was like light blue drawing I think it may have been a Scholastic book. But it was about this young early teen boys misadventures. And I recall the propeller wrecking havoc story. The book may have been from the 60s. But I read it in the early 70s. It may have been one of my older siblings book. And it probably was from the Scholastic catalog.
This sounds like something that Homer Price would have got up to: Robert McCloskey, Homer Price. Homer certainly had a problematic doughnut machine but a jalopy with a fan would suit him. Or Clifford Hicks, Marvelous Inventions of Alvin Fernald (or its sequels), but they didn’t have illustrations.
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It’s the homer Price books
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