[AT] Still in the M business

charliehill charliehill at embarqmail.com
Sun Jul 19 08:20:21 PDT 2009


Cecil, that would be a good idea for a kid.  Buy something like you are 
talking about maybe a year before he is old enough to drive and let him help 
"build" it into a car/truck he can be proud of.  Kind of killing two birds 
with one stone.

Dean, I'm not presuming to tend to your  business by saying that.  You know 
your child, your time limitations and your  abilities.  I just thought in 
general terms it would be a great father-son project.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cecil Bearden" <crbearden at copper.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 19, 2009 10:56 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Still in the M business


> Dean:
> When looking for a car or truck, I check my state auctions.  They are
> very reliable and relatively late fleet cars and trucks that are well
> maintained for an auction price that is usually a lot less than loan
> value...  The auctions are for the public, but since they are during
> working hours, you are usually only bidding against dealers.
>
> For instance my 89 chevy 1500 cost me 1500 2 years ago at the auction.
> It would not run since someone pulled out the ignition fuse and broke
> off one tab!!!!  I drove it 10K miles and had to rebuild the
> transmission for $400.  It gets 18mpg and has never failed to get me
> there.  I traded for a Machinery enamel paint job on it in December and
> it looks good.  I got an internet seat cover, headliner and floor mat
> and put all new rubber cab seals and window moldings, and it really
> drives good and looks good.  I have about $2500 total in it....
>
> My 95 chevy 1500 was bought last september for $900,it wouldn't run the
> relays were pulled out of it..  It cost $50 for the ignition a/c and
> horn relays. It needed a paint job since the paint was peeling.  I
> stripped it with paint stripper and put a mild sandblast on the inside
> of the bed and again traded for a machinery enamel paint job.  That
> tractor supply truck and trailer paint with the hardener is the same as
> House of Color paint when you add the hardener..   again internet seat
> cover and camo floor mat, a set of tirea and I have a great truck for
> $1500 invested...
>
> At the same sale I bought my wife a 99 caravan with electric locks
> mirrors and everything, for $2500.  I had to put the updated fan belt
> drive kit on it from Oreilly auto parts, but have had no problems and
> she has driven it over 30K miles..  Paint was great, but some $%%hole at
> the auction sale gouged the hood before I got it off the lot...
> a year ago I bought Dad a 2002 Ford F250 for $4500  Drove it 70K miles
> so far and had to put a computer in it last month.  However, We have
> only had to spend $700 in parts and labor for the past year...
>
>
> Just my experience
>
> Cecil in OKla
>
> Dean Vinson wrote:
>> I'd decided it was time to sell my 1950 Farmall M, which has few
>> particularly critical tasks here in the suburbs, since I've completed 
>> most
>> of the cleanup and minor repairs and general tinkering that I had in mind
>> when I bought the tractor three years ago, and because my 17-year-old son 
>> is
>> approaching the purchase of his first car and I could use some extra cash 
>> to
>> help him get something safer and more reliable than he could otherwise
>> afford on his own.
>>
>> So yesterday I used the tractor to pull out the stump of a dead sassafras
>> tree in my back yard (see photo at
>> http://www.vinsonfarm.net/photos/M_pulling_stump_Jul09.jpg).  It's not 
>> often
>> that an actual use for the tractor comes along, and I'd been not getting
>> around to dealing with that dead tree for a while, so after cutting the
>> trunk down from about five feet up and digging up and cutting the biggest
>> roots, I hooked up with a chain.  In hindsight I wish I'd left a few more
>> roots... it would have been more fun if the M had known the stump was 
>> back
>> there.
>>
>> With that chore done, I started drafting up the description to put on 
>> eBay,
>> and was going to take some more photos today to use in the ad.  Got the
>> tractor out this morning and went for one more drive around the 
>> neighborhood
>> to get it up to temperature.  Sounded good, felt good, smelled good... so 
>> I
>> came home, put the tractor away, put the camera away, and decided to find
>> some other way to help my son with a car.  Just too honorable an old 
>> machine
>> to sell.
>>
>> Dean Vinson
>> Dayton, Ohio
>> www.vinsonfarm.net
>>
>>
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