This weekend is the annual vintage tractor show at Nike Park in Monroe, MI. What a different show all around, and somehow very closely linked to "us" in a way or 2. Some of these vintage implements are like art forms, and clearly their owners take the same amount of pride in their stuff as we do. There's even a few hopped up trucks and a couple 8N Ford tractors with a SBC installed and a couple with a SBF! This show goes on this weekend every year, 3rd weekend in July. There's also an auction with old shop equipment, there's an old trailer axle with wide 5s on it, even a couple Cushman projects. Don't know auction details but I'm posting a link to the show and the auction. I'll be back there tomorrow and post some sale numbers and more pics. The atmosphere is as friendly and welcoming as you may find. Not since my excursion to the salt have strangers with like interest been so open and friendly. IMO a must do once in a while. A link: http://www.smatea.net/annualshow.php Auction info: http://www.auctionzip.com/Listings/1405597.html Here's some shots from today:
this is great ! love this old stuff ! fond of the steam power ones they are an art form for sure ! thanks for sharing
i saw one of these on a trailer..never even heard of a Porsche....been raised around tractors...neat...
We have a tractor museum here at one of the local fairgrounds. My wife and went thru it a few weeks ago. Some of the early engineering is amazing. Everything is so much more technical these days. Looking at the old stuff also reminded me how hard people worked back then compared to today. Not that farmers today don't work hard but some of the contaptions we saw looked like man-killers.
sometimes you can find crazy rare vintage speed parts at 1950s prices, at tractor shows that have a swap meet. These guys don't sell at car shows and you'd be surprised what they sometimes find, and bring to sell.........................I was
That grill shell is just what i need for my next traditional hot rod... Cool stuff, thanks for posting...
We have a local event every year in Kent, Ct. lots of interesting things to see. http://www.ctamachinery.com/
Personally I'd rather have a Lamborghini. Bob http://www.lamborghini-tractors.com/UNITEDKINGDOM/en-GB/defaultuk.html
Like it highlander. Flywheel here starts in the fall when it cools down. Keep the picts coming please.
Love the old tractors every once in a while i get the chance to bang out the front sheetmetal for one, Most of them had a hard life its good to see them brought back and enjoyed again. At a local cruise in there is a V8 with a pair of smithy mufflers that just cool looks right at home with the hot rods.
Next weekend is when we have the antique steam and tractor show, it gets bigger and better every year. On sat night the horse pullin takes center stage, that is something to see! They even show the tow rigs, the restored macks and stuff that they bring the tractors and steam engines in on. And them old steam tractors all always puttin around, tootin the whistles, given rides and at certain times they'll all line up and do the grand tour. It'll stop you in your tracks to watch that.
We cal them barbwire stretcher around here 2 cyl diesel strugle to pull its own shadow along Tractors have been a big part of my life . Nice to see restored old tractors. Who would imagine any one would restore one in the future when you where down on the rear axle in the mud and which you had some dynamite to blow up the damned tractor
I got a big ol' monster 4 whdr White stuck once. That takes some doing... Love vintage tractor shows, I should take my daughter to one, I bet she would get a huge kick out of it.
Went through the ice once hauling timber from a island lucky it was only about 4 feet deep some hard work get it to the shore
I think I prefer the 'push on the clacker three times' detonators, the single plunger looks a little bulky to carry around in the pack!! Doc.
I enjoy the tractor shows a lot more than I did driving them growing up in the Delta. That said, my last Model "A" was a John Deere. It's pretty handy for dragging dead projects around.
Not only men, In 1962 I was working for a pipeline and forman & I were across the street from an old post office some where around Great Meadows, NJ. The post mistress came over and asked if we would know if it was possible to put an electric starter on her tactor as she was getting to old to crank it. We went to her shed and she had a 1913 Cletrac, the lady was 90 and I don't think I could have cranked at half her age.
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