[AJD] The controversy

[Dean Vinson]

 Bill wrote:

> The only way, it was discovered, to allow the club 
> to grow was to accept the fact that the newer and 
> younger members identify with and enjoy the newer 
> engines and that someday they will be older too and 
> some more advanced types will take their place.

Hi, Bill.  Your comments were well put--thanks for the discussion.

One thing I wonder about, is what the folks 30 years in the future will
think of as classics.  With any kind of technology it seems like there can
really only be one "antique" period.  A 4020 will never be an antique.
Maybe there can be multiple classic periods, though.

To me the -10 and -20 series New Generation tractors will always be the true
"classic" Deeres, but I can see how some of the later models could be viewed
the same way if you'd grown up around them.  But I can't imagine tractors
from the 90s or 2000s ever being seen as classics; to me they're just modern
tractors and will always be modern tractors.  If you're 10 or 15 years old
today, will an 8430 be a classic 30 years from now?

Dean Vinson
Dayton, Ohio
www.vinsonfarm.net