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Anyone like antique tractors?

Started by TheGhost, May 07, 2006, 10:48:35 PM

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TheGhost

May 07, 2006, 10:48:35 PM
Went to a show today, piss poor weather for a show, but that's beside the point.  There were only 3 other Mopars besides mine:  66 Belvedere 2 door, 64 Barracuda in gorgeous condition, and a 70 Satellite ragtop.  I'll probably post those up later tonight, but for now, it's the tractors. :D
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TheGhost

#1
May 07, 2006, 10:51:42 PM
 ;D
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Silver R/T

#2
May 07, 2006, 11:29:59 PM
must be cowboy thing, we got quite a few of those sitting by some of the farmers. Im sure you could buy them for scrap etc
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Todd Wilson

#3
May 07, 2006, 11:44:09 PM
All those old tractors are cool.  We have a 2 cylinder club here and an old iron club and they get together all over the place in Kansas here and have a big show at the state fair every year.  Next weekend about 60 miles from here the antique truck club is going to a show with the old tractors. Should be a neat show to check out.

I found this old JD at a boneyard a while back I went to.......



My buddy had an old IH low boy cub  like the one in this picture. It was a fun little tractor to run around on out at his place.




Todd

Silver R/T

#4
May 07, 2006, 11:52:40 PM
I used to like old tractors/bulldozers when I was kid
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My Charger is hybrid, it runs on gas and on tears of ricers
2001 Ram 2500 CTD
1993 Mazda MX-3 GS SE
1995 Ford Cobra SVT#2722

TheGhost

#5
May 08, 2006, 12:55:38 AM
We had 3 old M's, when I lived on the farm.  Unfortunatly, they got sold when we moved to town.  I really wanted one of them.
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MassCharger73

#6
May 08, 2006, 06:38:13 AM
Yeah, I like old tractors also. That's just one more toy on my short list.
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BrianShaughnessy

#7
May 08, 2006, 07:36:09 AM
Cool.  I used to work on a lot of them old Farmalls, JD's,  Minnie Mo's,  etc.  back at MI a long time ago.    Mostly worked on 8N ferds tho.
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CaptMarvel

#8
May 08, 2006, 10:08:44 AM
My favorite was the 1903 Hoyt Clagwell, a guy down the road in Hooterville used to use one (when it was running) his stupid farmhand wasnt much help either...His wife's cooking sucked & he had to climb a telephone pole to call out. Ah, to be young and impressionable in the late 60's/early 70's.... :yesnod:

MassCharger73

#9
May 08, 2006, 11:21:35 AM
Keep Manhattan, just give me that countryside !
1973 Charger

jackel440

#10
May 08, 2006, 07:39:31 PM
I love my tractors!
FARMALLS  FOREVER !!!!!! :icon_smile_big:
I have 2 farmall H's  ,A IH 574 utility tractor and a Hough HR60 Payloader.Plus IH square baler,case hay rake,and other stuff.
I have a good buddy who has restored a Frick Steam engine.I hepled do some welding on it.He is restoring A Port Huron Engine now I think.
I tell you what if you have the time and go to an actual antique tractor show you would have a great time.And if you have young kids they are the best thing to do as a family.I go to car shows but tractor shows are more family oriented. :yesnod:
Go to a tractor show and most of the time your kids can get a ride on atractor putting around the show.try that at a car show.And the kids love it.My kids love getting to blow the whistle on the steam tractors. :icon_smile_big:

ck1

#11
May 09, 2006, 04:45:49 PM
we use to have an old CASE tractor you would have to crank start it and we plowed the farm with it up tell we planted x-mas trees back in 1980 and my uncle back in North Dakota still has a running OLIVER on the farm, that dam things a tank, has all metal wheels if I remeber right...................
CJK

Bandit72

#12
May 09, 2006, 07:33:20 PM
i really enjoy old tractors too, i currently have a 1940 Farmall M that my grandfather left me...when i was 10 years old instead of buying me a power wheels jeep that i really wanted my dad went  and bought me a 1941 john deere b for 200 bucks from an old farmer and got it running for me....i learned to drive on a 51 Allis Chalmers CA...i really like the antique equipment they used with them too, like the massey harris clipper pull type combine i got with my Farmall....

later  :icon_smile_cool:
Daddy ran whiskey in a big black dodge
bought it at an auction at the masons lodge,
Johnson County Sherriff painted on the side,
just shot a coat of primer then he looked inside,
well him and my uncle tore that engine down,
I still remember that rumblin' sound.....

adauto

#13
May 09, 2006, 10:57:01 PM
 :punkrocka: :2thumbs: Ghost vintage iron is always cool!
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rtman99

#14
May 09, 2006, 10:58:11 PM
i married into a family that is a big time JD fans   my wife has a 39 JD H that her dad and her restored about 10 years ago.   I think my father n law has  about 15 old 2 cylinder JD not including  3 old combines and and all the implements her has.

CaptMarvel

#15
May 10, 2006, 09:24:23 AM
I've always loved old tractors (my first mechanical love- age 5) I do have a 1952 8N, some may not consider the Ford in a class with the Chalmers or John Deere as far as heavy duty stuff, but that old thing is bulletproof & I use it all the time on my 3 acres. Never lets me down, Great tractor! I really do love those old steel wheeled crank type monsters though... ;D

Sublime/Sixpack

#16
May 10, 2006, 10:22:33 AM
Old (restored) tractors are fun to look at! Don't think I'd want one but they're fun to look at!
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bull

#17
May 10, 2006, 11:42:07 AM
I've always loved tractors. My dad put me on top of a Johnny Popper to drag a harrow around when I was 12. Ever since then I've loved going in circles on a tractor. I'd do it for a living right now if it paid worth a hoot.

When I worked as a newspaper reporter I did a feature on a guy in the next town over that owns several tractors. At the time I did the story he had 32 of them, most of them JD, but I'm sure the number has fluxuated since then. Any Charger owner who's out of the tractor loop would be surprised to discover how much some of these old tractors are selling for right now. I'd keep an eye out for old neglected tractors as well as Chargers if you want to make some money.

CaptMarvel

#18
May 10, 2006, 06:26:28 PM
A co worker of mine is selling his 3 acres in Madera and has an old John Deere (early 1930's ? small front wheeled, crank handle type) it seems pretty small. Anyway he'd like to sell it, says it runs. I think he only wants a few hundred bucks for it if anyone around central Ca. is interested... :icon_smile_approve:

blackcharger

#19
May 10, 2006, 06:44:24 PM
Quote from: CaptMarvel on May 08, 2006, 10:08:44 AM
My favorite was the 1903 Hoyt Clagwell, a guy down the road in Hooterville used to use one (when it was running) his stupid farmhand wasnt much help either...His wife's cooking sucked & he had to climb a telephone pole to call out. Ah, to be young and impressionable in the late 60's/early 70's.... :yesnod:

please don't talk about my Uncle Oliver like that! :D

Dave

rtman99

#20
May 11, 2006, 11:28:11 PM
on some of the prices  my father n law jsut sold an 730 high crop D JD this last year for $50,000     and it was not completely restored

Bandit72

#21
May 12, 2006, 11:05:36 AM
Quote from: rtman99 on May 11, 2006, 11:28:11 PM
on some of the prices  my father n law jsut sold an 730 high crop D JD this last year for $50,000     and it was not completely restored

they didn't make many of those 730's in high crops...and they made even fewer that ran on Propane..
Daddy ran whiskey in a big black dodge
bought it at an auction at the masons lodge,
Johnson County Sherriff painted on the side,
just shot a coat of primer then he looked inside,
well him and my uncle tore that engine down,
I still remember that rumblin' sound.....

rtman99

#22
May 12, 2006, 11:33:16 AM
yeah not to bad of a return   he bought it as a basket case   about 10 or 15 years ago  for  $1000  i beleive and half way restored it him self  and got that much out of it

purple70rt

#23
May 12, 2006, 08:45:22 PM
no

TheGhost

#24
May 12, 2006, 09:56:26 PM
Quote from: purple70rt on May 12, 2006, 08:45:22 PM
no

Then why bother looking at the thread, then posting in it? ::)
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