We had a Farmall - I don't remember the model, but I spent a lot of time on it
-- and a Ferguson (this was before they merged with Massey and became Massey
Ferguson).
Wish I still had that '55 Chevy. I think, including the trade-in, it cost me
less than $1200 back in 1957. I was flipping channels a while back and saw one
just like it go at an auction for over $40,000.
Walt
--
"Anything more than 500 yards from
the car just isn't photogenic." --
Edward Weston
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Doug <dhsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
> On Wednesday, April 25, 2007 10:41 pm, Walt Wayman wrote:
> > I'll go ya one better. My first car was a 1954 MG TD. It was fun some of
> > the time, except for those stupid side curtains instead of windows, and the
> > fact it had the FORD syndrome (Fix or repair daily, or, Found on road
> > dead).
>
> I thought maybe it had the other ford problem. The one of check the gas and
> fill up the oil. When I was very young my father had a '56 ford wagon. I
> remember him heating a can of oil on the wood stove to get it thin enough to
> pour.
> >
> > I traded it in on a '55 Chevy Bel Air red and white sports coupe, which
> > might have been the best car I've ever owned. I accidentally drove it off a
> > flooded road and sank it nearly up to the windshield once. A nearby farmer
> > drove his Farmall up and pulled me out. The engine started right up,
> > despite having been under water. They just don't make them like that
> > anymore.
> >
> > Walt
>
> You want tough, those old Farmalls,John Deeres and others were and are
> seriously tough machines. There are still a lot of 50 year old Farmalls
> around here still doing useful work. This winter whenever I got stuck with
> the plow truck I could always wade though deep snow to reach into this mound
> of snow which was actually a tractor to find the starter switch. After a
> couple of very slow rr-------rr rr-------rrs it'd fire up, sometime on three
> cylinders sometimes on four, but after a few minutes of running it would be
> purring smoothly and able to pull a truck that weighed half again as much as
> the tractor did.
>
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