Fw: [AJD] JD - Model "C"

[Duane Larson]

I'll try sending this again - about every 5th message doesn't show up.
Maybe I should get the message.
Duane Larson

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Duane Larson" <jdlarson at comcast.net>
To: "Antique John Deere mailing list"
<antique-johndeere at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 11:18 PM
Subject: Re: [AJD] JD - Model "C"


> If you really want to get into the C, there is a nice 111 page book titled
> "The John Deere Model "C" Farm Tractor" published by Two Cylinder in 1993.
> I think it came with their toy C tractor from the Two Cylinder Grand
Opening
> in 1993.
> Duane Larson
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "G.Dombaugh" <gdombaugh at 1kms.com>
> To: "Antique John Deere mailing list"
> <antique-johndeere at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 4:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [AJD] JD - Model "C"
>
>
> > Thanks Bill and Dean.... and others...
> > I will email JR directly and most likely purchase the book....
> > I hate to bother you with all the work of scanning pictures here.
Thanks
> > anyway.
> >
> > I don't happen to have that book.... Ironically, if I had this book to
> begin
> > with,
> > I would have known the JD "C" story ...  :-)   Most be the missing link
> that
> > I needed.
> >
> > I appreciate all the help from the LIST....
> > Thanks again to everyone.
> > Sincerely,
> > Garrell
> > KS
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Dean VP" <deanvp at att.net>
> > To: "'Antique John Deere mailing list'"
> > <antique-johndeere at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 11:47 AM
> > Subject: RE: [AJD] JD - Model "C"
> >
> >
> > > Garrell:
> > >
> > > JR Hobs has several pictures of the Model "C" in his book on unstyled
JD
> > > tractors. If you don't get something better I will scan some of these
> > > pictures and send them to you. Just holler if the scans are needed. I
> have
> > > done a google search on the Web w/o success.
> > >
> > > Dean A. Van Peursem
> > > Snohomish, WA 98290
> > >
> > > I'm a walking storeroom of facts..... I've just lost the key to the
> > > storeroom door
> > >
> > >
> > > www.deerelegacy.com
> > >
> > > http://members.cox.net/classicweb/email.htm
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: antique-johndeere-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
> > > [mailto:antique-johndeere-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf
> Of
> > > G.Dombaugh
> > > Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 6:42 AM
> > > To: Antique John Deere mailing list
> > > Subject: Re: [AJD] JD - Model "C"
> > >
> > > Thanks everyone for educating me on the JD model "C".
> > > Would it be to much to ask if anyone has an emailable photo of one
> > > of these (original) rare tractors ??  Or is there a web site where I
> could
> > > down load a picture?
> > > Garrell
> > > gdombaugh at 1kms.com
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > > From: "Duane Larson" <jdlarson at comcast.net>
> > > To: "Antique John Deere mailing list"
> > > <antique-johndeere at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> > > Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 10:19 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [AJD] JD - Model "C"
> > >
> > >
> > >> Well, not quite indistinguishable.  Most of the C's had a wooden
> steering
> > >> wheel, and a post/spring type seat rather than the dual arched
springs
> > >> attached to the rear of the transmission case.  The exhaust manifold
> was
> > >> cut
> > >> off straight rather than angled, and there were some differences with
> the
> > >> block/case clearances and wheels.  But I'm sure Paul O will weigh in
> here
> > >> and give us the straight story.  J.R. Hobbs has a nice section on the
> Cs
> > >> and
> > >> GPs in his book on the Unstyled JDs.
> > >> Duane Larson
> > >>
> > >> ----- Original Message ----- 
> > >> From: "Bill Brueck" <b2 at chooka.net>
> > >> To: "Antique John Deere mailing list"
> > >> <antique-johndeere at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> > >> Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 6:23 PM
> > >> Subject: Re: [AJD] JD - Model "C"
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>> It is my understanding that they are indistinguishable from the
early
> > >> GP's.
> > >>> The model designation was changed because of the difficulty in
> > >>> differentiating between the D and the C when parts were ordered over
> the
> > >>> phone lines of the day.
> > >>>
> > >>> B²
> > >>> Bill Brueck (brick)
> > >>> Chatfield, Minnesota USA
> > >>>
> > >>> Confusion is a higher state of knowledge than ignorance.
> > >>> ----- Original Message ----- 
> > >>> From: "G.Dombaugh" <gdombaugh at 1kms.com>
> > >>> To: "Antique John Deere mailing list"
> > >>> <antique-johndeere at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> > >>> Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 1:28 PM
> > >>> Subject: [AJD] JD - Model "C"
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> > Can anyone tell me what a JD model "C" looks like?  They were
> > >>> > apparently
> > >>> > only made for two years.
> > >>> >
> > >>> >       Model C
> > >>> >       1927 200001
> > >>> >       1928 200103
> > >>> >
> > >>> > Garrell
> > >>> >
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