[AJD] GP that just sold on eBay

Bill Brueck b2 at chooka.net
Fri Dec 30 12:04:32 PST 2005


The eBay sale is listed as closing at $3730.21 after 19 bids, reserve met.
Winner is cooch_in, that's not a handle I recognize.

I'll start paying more attention to the GP posts now.  Would like to tear
into the GP next but need to build up a 28 or 29 D out of 2 parts tractors
first, that project will also free up some room as I plan to have 1 tractor
and a bunch of parts to sell on eBay when I get done.

Will be watching for details of the September event.  I don't get out much,
but maybe I can make that one.

Thanks!

B²

-----Original Message-----
From: antique-johndeere-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
[mailto:antique-johndeere-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of
Paul O
Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 10:41 AM
To: Antique John Deere mailing list
Subject: Re: [AJD] GP that just sold on eBay

Duane
Every little while I ask Mike why he hasn't updated the web page. Help me
pressure him to change his priority and get it done.

Would someone tell me what the final price was, and did it sell.
The tractor had significant value in the wheels. The bean axle is an unknown
quantity today. The only one I saw sell a couple years ago (Harlan Wilson
Sale) brought about $2900. I doubt if that will happen again.
>From what I could see in the pictures, it was not a bean tractor. When 
>the
bean axle was developed in early 1931, the policy for replacement axles was
to supply the bean axle. The reason was that the bean axle would work on any
tractor while the regular axle could not replace a bean axle. That is why
there are some number of tractors with the bean axle which did not leave the
factory that way. As far as I know, there were no small bore bean tractors,
but I have  seen some small bores with bean axles.
My opinion of that tractor was that if one paid the reserve or more, bought
all the parts to make it complete, and restored it, the investment would be
above  the value of  the restored tractor.
Paul O


----- Original Message -----
From: "Duane Larson" <jdlarson at comcast.net>
To: "Antique John Deere mailing list" 
<antique-johndeere at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 11:05 PM
Subject: Re: [AJD] GP that just sold on eBay



Bill,
You need to come to the next GP rally at Paul Ostranders in September 2006.
Check www.johndeeregp.com - send them an email asking about the rally, not
sure why Michael hasn't updated the web page... .  I have a '31 GP standard,
'30 GP standard, and '31 GPWT and love them all!  If you get near Moline,
you should contact Corwin (Cork) Groth as he restores GPs for a business.
He had the unusual GP at the last GOG that turned out to be able to pull a 5
bottom plow.
Regards,
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: Thursday, December 29, 2005 10:31 PM
Subject: [AJD] GP that just sold on eBay


> See item 7574134823.
>
> I'm just getting into the GP subculture, having bought my first GP, a 1931
> (very straight, complete except it has a Wico mag, and the lugs had been
> removed and the engine is stuck) this fall at a local auction, only about 
> 20
> miles from my home.
>
> This is more than I paid for mine, and I was wondering if there was
> something really special about this one on eBay.  I don't know what the 
> bean
> axle is.  Maybe the lugs are good property.  I know the mags go pretty 
> high
> on eBay and I don't know if there is one for this tractor or not, but I 
> kind
> of doubt it.
>
> I'm eager to get to know a little more about the GP.  Seeing this one sell
> makes me real satisfied with my recent purchase, but I thought maybe I was
> missing something.
>
> You can see my GP at
>
http://www.karstlandventures.com/eventsPhotos/Tractors/20051008%20Lanesboro%
> 20GP/index.cfm.
>
> Thanks, all!
>
>>
> Confusion is a higher state of knowledge than ignorance.
>
>
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