[Farmall] RE: ads 12/3 Lancaster Farming - OT (mostly)

[br549 at hemc.net]

No tractor content:
I restored a 63 Midget about 8 years ago - Old English white, wire wheels,
red interior with white piping. Didn't need much besides tires, tubes, a
gas tank and overbore (head gasket rusted and #2 cylinder pitted) - $1500
was what I paid. Had been parked and covered since 75; 58,000 miles and had
everything original - the brass mallet for knockoffs, plugwires, SU carbs
(didn't even open them up), headlights (Lucas), etc. 1963 Midget has no
external door handles and removable sidescreens - no side windows. It was
also a transition year with some having front disc brakes and others with
the drums all 'round (mine had discs - kinda unique). Great fun that little
car - seemed like you were doing about 80 mph everywhere you went but would
probably have been hard to ever get it to that speed. Any vehicle larger
than you (everthing on the road) really made you question their motto
"Saftey Fast".

Why all this useless British car info? Gets me out of decorating ;-) and
wanted to point out that the Sprite mentioned below would not be a Bugeye
(Frogeye if across the pond...) but a Midget with a different grille and
badges. Maybe the seller had Donald Healey on the brain when typing his
advert and changed the maker to Dustin?

Tractor content:
Still looking for those elusive 340 (460 might work too) stabilizer
brackets for the industrial 3 point hitch. I can go out and get the p/n off
the tractor if that helps.

Happy holidays all!!!


Message: 2
Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 18:10:16 -0500
From: Mike Sloane <mikesloane at verizon.net>
Subject: [Farmall] Some ads from the 12/3 Lancaster Farming
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
	<at at lists.antique-tractor.com>,	Ford-Ferguson mailing list
	<ford-ferguson at lists.antique-tractor.com>,	Farmall/IHC mailing list
	<farmall at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Message-ID: <43937758.80908 at verizon.net>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed

Some of the more interesting ads from the (free to
subscribers) Mailbox Markets section of the weekly Lancaster (PA) 
Farming newspaper for 12/3/2005. For the full listing, go to 
<www.lancasterfarming.com>. [my comments, if any, are in brackets]

For Sale:
	
International cub rear wheel weights, 1 set, $100; 1963 Dustin Healey 
sprite-complete, needs restored $1500. Somerset Co. 814-634-5159; 
814-233-0597. [I presume he means Austin Healey, and that would be the 
old "bug eye" model that sold back in '63 for about $1700]



--------------------------------------------------------------------
mail2web - Check your email from the web at
http://mail2web.com/ .