[Farmall] 1967 IH 2424 - Courtney V

[Jim Becker]

I can't speak for where anyone else sent information they dug up about that 
tractor.  I do know that the info I sent in October did not go to your 
uncle, father, aunt, or any of their other helpers.  It was sent to 
courtneyv2 at excite.com .  I really thought I was helping somebody get 
information about their tractor, not providing ammunition for "smug 
satisfaction and an entire LIFETIME of gloating."  I put considerable effort 
into finding information specific to this model tractor.  By the way, I did 
it at work, with help of a coworker, where we have access to the same 
manuals the ag dealers have.  Spent enough time that I went off the clock to 
do it.  (That is REAL MONEY not in my pocket because I took time to research 
your tractor.)  For a dealer to have information I didn't, he would 
virtually have to handle Dresser equipment.  Since Dresser didn't spend time 
on old manuals, you would need to find a dealer that has a stash of old 
manuals.  Not surprising you couldn't find a dealer familiar with the 
tractor.

I told you where the tractor was built way back on October 9, possibly 
exclusive of the cab and bumpers which were added for the military.  I also 
pointed out that for multiple military branches to have identical equipment, 
they were most certainly built on different contracts.  By itself, that 
pretty well blows any idea of them being experimental or prototype units. 
Not only have you never acknowledged my sending this information, but your 
spamy email hasn't been updated to show you paid any attention to the 
answers either.

Others already pointed out that the tractor serial number does not have a 
prefix that would go with an IH prototype.  I will add that most DOD 
prototypes, at least for military equipment, have a model prefix of XM. 
Your tractor doesn't have that either.

Now you can go ahead and start backpedaling again.  But the fact remains 
that I sent information DIRECTLY TO YOU, not Jerry's "ungrateful" secretary.

Jim Becker        jim.becker at verizon.net

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "CourtneyV" <courtneyv2 at excite.com>
To: <farmall at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 9:23 AM
Subject: [Farmall] 1967 IH 2424 - Courtney V


> Guy Fay--Thank you!  None of that info was ever given to me (or Jerry) but 
> it now makes sense and you will probably NOT see a lot more about this 
> tractor on the site from now on--unless of course, I find a third one just 
> like it.  :) Oh, the thing about archives being destroyed--Jerry had said 
> he heard it from one of the guys at IH but that it was about a year ago, 
> when he first bought the tractor and can't remember exactly who told him 
> or even all the details--I tell him he's old and his mind is slipping--why 
> doesn't anyone write this stuff down?  He said he thought it was when the 
> IH plant closed in Racine that employees cleaned out several truckloads of 
> office records and hauled them to the dump before it was discovered. 
> Maybe it wasn't archives, just billing records or something like that...or 
> maybe just a rumor.  We know how fast that can spread.   Thank you again 
> for taking the time.  Courtney VandenRidge