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Phil, Bless your little pea-pickin' heart. You just redeemed the sanity of a little old lady that I bought my 1950 Model B from. When I bought the Model B, it came with a pan seat mounted to the transmission housing with a saddle bracket. It has a Monroe shock absorber and a coil spring directly under the seat. The lady swore on a Bible that the tractor came from the dealer in 1950 with that seat on the tractor. Her husband had used the tractor until he died in 1973 at which time she sold it to her neighbor, a strawberry farmer, who used it until I bought it. Everyone who has seen the tractor said that it could not have come on the tractor. What evidently happend was that the seat was installed as an option before the tractor was delivered. Under the orange paint is red paint. I figured that it must have been an aftermarket item, but had no idea how or from whom. Thanks for the information. It adds a little more to the history and uniqueness of the tractor.
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