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jonnnny: There are numerous collections in this league. We have a guy here in Nova Scotia, Canada, has every version of every letter series tractor ever built, somewhere around 100 tractors, and all completely restored. He told me in 2001, they cost him on average $10,000. per tractor to buy and restore. When he started 30 years ago, it was under $2,000. There is another guy in eastern Ontario, has well over 300 vehicles, cars, tractors and trucks, however only about 100 of them are restored to date. His tractors are all IH, most of the trucks are IH, but there is one beauty a B-61 Mack and a Brockway Husky and about 7 cars, 5 of them Cadilac. The cars and trucks are all insured, inspected and registered for highway driving. My daughter and husband had a tour of this place, over 22,000 square feet of heated warehouse. His son in law, spent the afternoon showing them this. My daughter took photos enough to make up a complete album. As their tour ended, the owner, and staff landed home from a show with a K series IH highway tractor and drop deck trailer and the Mack with trailer and the trailers were loaded with IH tractors. First chore was to presure wash every thing before it was put away. This facility has 3 full time employees. There are numerous collections like this across North America, and most of these guys know each other. When I was talking with the guy from NS in 2001, I mentioned the guy from eastern ON, and he had met him at an auction in Missouri. There was a collection somewhere in the mid west, one each of every year of Farmall M and SM. Someone will correct me if wrong, however I think that collection was sold in an estate dispersal auction. Most of the guys that have these collection are now in their twilight years, mainly because it takes a lifetime to put something like this together, plus you must have a good source of income along the way.
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