[AT] Just too gorgeous to pass up

[charliehill]

Dudley,  I find it strange that an active farmer would sell a tractor that 
had spent it's whole life in 3 generations of the farmers family.  Is there 
a story behind that?  Or was the guy just not sentimental about it?

Charlie Hill
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Subject: Re: [AT] Just too gorgeous to pass up


> ... Anyway, some weeks ago I was browsing eBay... and there was an
> absolutely gorgeous very late 53 Super M, immaculately restored, live
> hydraulics, two-way valve, belt pulley, etc--and it had the transitional
> grille ...
>
>
> Dean,
>
> I can't recall the last time I've used, or heard someone else use, the
> word "gorgeous" but it does seem fitting here ... that sure is a gorgeous
> tractor!
>
> I am biased to be sure.  In fact I returned home just a couple of hours
> ago from a farming community about thirty miles North of my place where I
> wrote an active farmer a check for a Super M that his grandfather had
> purchased new.  Except for the fact that it has dirty and faded clothes on
> it looks a good deal like your' SM.  It is a stage II six volt (although
> yours' appears to be 12?) with a Farmall two-way valve, Paper Pulley and
> Fenders.  The rears are virtually new and the tin is straight although it
> does has the often seen slit in the Hood caused by the Char Lynn Torque
> Generator.  It has the M Grille.
>
>>From a psychological standpoint I understand tractors to be a lot like
> horses.  It is important that they not be shedded/stabled by themselves
> but rather have a companion ... especially when the companion is also
> gorgeous!  Congratulations -
>
> Dudley
> Snohomish, Washington
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