[AT] Tractor Restoration On Front Page Of Wall Street Journal

[charlie hill]

There are already a bunch of those types in the hobby and we don't need any 
more of them.  I was at a show in PA a few years ago.  Some jerk had an 
early model AC B up at the very front of the show grounds.  He had it roped 
off and was standing guard over it.
He had so much clear coat on it that you couldn't tell where the paint 
stopped and the air started.  Lynn reached over the rope and laid the back 
of her hand gently on the radiator cover.  I didn't have time to warn her 
not to do it.  The guy flung a fit.  Started mouthing off about how much 
money he had in the restoration blah blah blah.
He was screaming at her.  My first instinct was to put a red neck cussin on 
him but I thought first.  I looked at Lynn and said, "let's go"  Then as I 
walked away I said "oh by the way you have the wrong decals for that year 
model".

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Sloane" <mikesloane at verizon.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 6:46 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Tractor Restoration On Front Page Of Wall Street Journal


> The problem with that kind of publicity is that the yuppies will think it 
> is "trendy" to acquire old tractors and have them restored (they won't do 
> it themselves, of course). And that will certainly drive the prices right 
> through the roof. I would prefer that it just remain a secret among us 
> FATGs.
>
> Mike
>
> Chuck Bealke wrote:
>> Folks,
>>
>> As the New York Times did several years ago, the Wall Street Journal
>> has finally acknowledged the world of tractor restoration. But this time 
>> we got
>> front page coverage. In the Jan 3, 2007 edition of the WSJ, there is a 
>> nice article about Mr. Kristin Gall, a farmer from Ethel, Mo., who 
>> searched out and restored his grandfather's Farmall 1206. It even has 
>> before and after photos of the restoration and mentions a separate JD 
>> tractor resurrection and the Red Power
>> Roundup. In case you subscribe to the WSJ online, it can be found at
>>
>> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB116779347247365603.html?mod=hps_us_pageone
>>  There is also a '57 picture of three Gall gents astride their new 
>> Farmall 450, and
>> the photo looked familiar. Perhaps I have seen it in a old Red Power or 
>> Antique Tractor issue.
>>
>> Now that Wall Street is on to us, it seems time to get the USPO to do a 
>> Classic American Tractors sheet of stamps. They recently did a nice one 
>> on US motorcycles, and they only have half the wheels and history. Do any 
>> of you know where to get such
>> a campaign started?
>>
>> Chuck Bealke
>> www.plowsong.com
>
>
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