[AT] Found out how to buy an Antique AC 'C' tractor

[Rob Wilson]

Just my .02 but if it's truly all original and the paint is decent I
wouldn't restore it I would only wax it. Like they say they're only original
once. The survivors are getting harder and harder to find. As the owner of a
C that was my Grandpa's first tractor I wish it didn't need restoring when I
got it. Then again Gene Dotson probably thinks that more than I do :) But
seriously I would just clean it up and wax it or use boiled linseed oil on
it. 
Rob 

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Subject: [AT] Found out how to buy an Antique AC 'C' tractor

There is an annual Farm equipment auction in Savannah Tn on the 1st Saturday
in March.
I've been attending it for over 25 years. Always buying some small things
like plows, hay equipment, and some junk. I even bought a MF 1135 once and
got to thinking I didn't need it and sold it without ever driving it.
It is usually a 4-some, my dad, 2 sons and myself. Over the years I've let
quite a few things go and after they were sold would usually tell my sons
'that was a pretty good deal I probably should have bid on that'. It just
drives my son's nuts when I say that, they are always saying it's too late
for that kind of talk now.
For the last 2 years my youngest son has had baseball games on sale day and
I've missed them both to watch him play. Last year I stayed on the cell
phone half the day of the game talking to my oldest son about what was at
the sale and what my father had bought. He bought a hay tedder.
This year was no different.
I grow quite a few flowers and sell them to the local florist and have kinda
been looking around for a tricycle front AC or Farmall with a good belly
mount cultivator for plowing them.
My son calls me as soon as they arrive at the sale and tells me there is an
AC 'C' with a good cultivator on it. Of  course I say will it crank, he says
'it's running as we speak'. 
We played phone tag for the next 2
hours, he  called me after he found the owner, and of course the owner said
everything worked except the lights. I finally told him to go as high as
$1500. He called me back in about and hour and  told me he bought it for
$800.  The owner was right, so far everything works except the lights.
It is a '46 model according to the serial number. It must have come from
west of the Mississippi, it does not have any rust at all on it. It needs a
gas tank cleaning and a front seal and all the fluids changed.
After I do a little sand blasting I think some new Persian Orange will look
good on it.
My dad owned one just like it in the 50's. I'm more of a tractor driver than
a mechanic and my dad is already saying we can fix the front seal, put new
brakes on it, clean the carb. I guess with a little guidance from someone
who's already experienced it once, I can learn it too. 
My son's want it
to look like new and the youngest wants to take it to a show, I want to
clean it up an plow with it.

Sorry for the ramble, but it's kinda fun when your dad(74) oldest son(22)
youngest son(16) me(49) have something in common like tractors.

Question?

This tractor is a 'FUEL' burner. It started on gas then you switch it to
'fuel' (kerosene). the fuel line has been removed from the start tank. Do I
need to buy kerosene and mix with gas or can I just run straight gas?

David Holcombe in extreme NW AL






 

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