[AJD] late B

[Ronald L. Cook]

Dean,
	Yeah, but is it green with yellow wheels?  And who said I was a betting 
man?  Sure as heck not me.  What I mentioned was the BEER.  NO BETS! 
I'll buy the first one if I am in town.

Ron Cook
Salix, IA

Dean VP wrote:
> Ron:
> 
> Since you are a betting man, I'd like to collect on one of those beers the
> first week of July.  I'm betting a beer that it was made in the 1951
> calendar year, that it is a 1952 model year tractor and that it was made in
> JD's 1952 model B production year and probably in JD's 1951 fiscal year and
> that it is over 50 years old. :-)
> 
> I'll collect the beer(s) on the evening of July 2 since we are driving North
> on I29 from Omaha that evening. My wife can drive the rest of the way to NW
> Iowa.  :-)  
> 
> Dean A. Van Peursem
> Snohomish, WA 98290
> 
> I'm a walking storeroom of facts..... I've just lost the key to the
> storeroom door 
> 
> 
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> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: antique-johndeere-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
> [mailto:antique-johndeere-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of
> Ronald L. Cook
> Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 9:52 AM
> To: Antique John Deere mailing list
> Subject: RE: [AJD] late B
> 
> Okay you guys.  Bill and Dean.
> 	Thanks for the info even if it is sort of conflicting.  I really
> have no 
> idea how to reply to two postings, but this is my attempt.
> 
> Bill, your serial breakdown shows this thing to be a '51, which I suspect 
> it is.  Where did you get that serial information?  The only breakdown I 
> have says it is a late styled model B.  Hell, I knew that from looking at 
> it from the road.  I need to find a serial number listing for these things 
> that I can use.
> 
> Dean, you are getting your info from JR's book.  Now, see, if I said JR is 
> full of crap, his mother would probably throw something at me next time I 
> waved at her.  Of course we don't have justices of the peace anymore so she 
> can't put me in jail, I don't think.  Now maybe if I said he knows what he 
> is talking about she will bake me a cherry pie.  Nah.  She would probably 
> give me hell for having had too many beers in the past with JR's dad and 
> throw something at me anyway.  (We used to have a few before his untimely 
> passing.) <vbg> I'll bet this old B is a '51 production year tractor and is 
> the same as a '52 model as the book says.
> 
> JR, you are probably reading this.  I suppose I'll have to buy your damned 
> book, eh?  What I really want is a copy of the Little Giants.  By the time 
> I bought a Dubuque Deere, the book was out of print.
> 
> Ron Cook
> Salix, IA