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

[John Hall]

Good story. I was just thiking today that warm weather is just around the 
corner---it usually brings some auctions with it, along with a tractor show 
or two!

John
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Holcombe" <Dlholcombe at una.edu>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 11:40 PM
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
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> AT mailing list
> http://www.antique-tractor.com/mailman/listinfo/at