Tractor Grille Shells on your hot rod?

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I can get all sorts of Minneapolis and Allis shells for 20 bucks apiece at a salvage yard nearby.I'm using one on my wifes T.Different rules!!!!

 

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Olskool - The problem with the 8N & 9N grilles is you need to cut/tack the hood and sides to make a unit, not that it can't be done, it would get pricey unless you have one laying around.



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I think I'm gonna have to start looking now, so's if I get the chance I'll have it. I think it would really screw with some people, with the Ford center emblem 'n all

 

Yep, same car I built. Well, sorta.

That grille is a mid 50's Allis chalmers baler. The tractors had a slat style insert while the balers had the mesh inserts.

Olivers are the thing for a track style car.

I also used a new 8N ford radiator behind that and it worked great after some outlet relocation.

 

Tractor Grill's RULE !

HotRodding is all about Coolness

 

Got to talking to an old timer in a knife shop in Julian (CA) Turns out that he was really big on restoring old tractors. The ones that were too far gone turned into yard art and the others he was rebuilding back to stock. Spent most of his off time searching for parts or working on the tractors. He was really into it.

I guess that for every vehicle ever made there is a hobyist out there fixing them up.

(Some guys actually spruce up mini trucks... Fancy wheels and everything.)

 

Heres one on eGay, hurry!
Farmall!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Thank you 1LowDelivery,sir!! Just won this ****er for 32 bucks! Gonna use it or an old Oliver for the nose of the modified I plan to make out of the straight 6 flathead I have left over from my 28 Poncho build up. Thanks for the finding, where do I send the six pack?

By the way, I grew up down the way from Toad****, AR so I can relate, brother.

 

I'd like to see more pixs of Tractor Shells, anyone have some links?

AHotRod
Pops

 

here's my Oliver...

 

and the Farmall i just won...

 

one ***y *****...

 

Here is a ****shutt. I stole the pic from www.ytmag.com go to tractor photos and check some out. Just remember there are a lot of tractor restorers out there too, probably more than you would think.

 

a friend has this narrowed and sectioned Oliver. it came with a 1918 Dodge project he put together, but he decided not to use the shell, i think i might try to acquire it...

it looks to have started out just like the Oliver shell above...

 

CROW,
What year is that Oliver grill ???

AHotRod

 

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Here is a ****shutt. I stole the pic from www.ytmag.com go to tractor photos and check some out. Just remember there are a lot of tractor restorers out there too, probably more than you would think.



[/ QUOTE ] Look at this! It's a streamliner just waiting to happen. Like that WW2 tank turned 'roadster'. Smaller scale. Great find Kentucky!

 

Heres my peaked, stretched and wrapped 50's Case on the Tudor:

 

Whats with all the field cars...sorry couldnt resist.

 

Glenn, that is a 1945 model 60 grill, the absolute most beautiful thing in existence.

 

Ya gotta admitt, these "Alternitive Grills" give some serious charactor to Hot Rods.
I like most I've seem so far....maybe becuse I'm an old Iowa Farm boy.

AHotRod

 

AHotRod,
That's our thinking, as well.......here on the Tx Gulf coast,farmland meets the beach for miles....farms and ranches hold years worth of abandoned tractors....
Cleatus.....what about that Snow Cat? Just curious....

What about truck grilles?
Anyone?

 

I got a line on some old REO truck grills that are incredible. Need to be cut down but man are they cool.

 

oh, REO speedwagon, eh? Sorry, bad joke.
-Crew

 

How about a narrowed and sectioned B-61 Mack grille? Yummy

 

Check your local listings for repeats of one of my favorites on the farming network: Cl***ic Tractor Fever!!!!

If you like old tractor grilles still on tractors.
go to www.cl***ictractors.com

 

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Funny you mention this, as just a few days ago I spotted a really cool art-deco style grill and hood on an OLD snow cat at an abondoned ski area not far from here. Would look really cool on a roadster. Tempted to go up there late some night with a box of tools.

[/ QUOTE ]I am thinking about getting an old groomer grille for my 27.I work in the ski biz,so,I see them all the time.I just have to talk someone into letting me get one.

 

Here is my IH grille that I just aquired for my beater project........

 

Nice one, Glenn!

 

anyone got any more to share?

 

picked up this Oliver shell at a salvage yard up north. don't know what i'll do with it but maybe i'll build a car around it someday. i took it apart today, hammered some dents out and will send it to be blasted next week...