What to set price at for 1206

Hello, I was wondering if you all could help. This tractor will probably be for sale soon and was wondering what I should expect to get for this 1967 1206. This tractor is totally restored and the new items are: front tires, belts, hoses, seat, steering wheel, clutch, pressure plate, throw-out bearing, batteries, lights, hitch pump, steering pump, pto cover. The radiator was rotted out. The transmission was rebuilt with new bearings and seals. The seat base was rebuilt. The back tires are original and this tractor only has 1767 hrs. Motor was not rebuilt because it is in great shape with very minimal blowby. Smokes a little diesel smoke but burns no oil. Everything works except fuel guage. 1000 lbs of weight on front and inside back tires are loaded with weights on them too. The TA on this tractor is new not rebuilt. It has 2 sets of remotes with 540 and 1000 pto. There is maybe on or two very minor oil leaks on this tractor. Tractor is located in Alabama. This restoration was done about a year ago. Would I be best to put this tractor on ebay?? I am trying to put a photo up but dont know if it will work. Thanks for your input. Here is a link to the photos Link

That glassy, shiney paint and the chrome exhaust just SCREAMS "Restored by Dupont".

He'll do alright. Those 1206s are selling like hotcakes. Pretty or not.

Allan

I guess not.

It's gonna bring a heck of a lot more than it's worth. That glassy paint and chrome exhaust insures that.

If it only has 1700 actual hours on it, something was waaayyyyy bad wrong with it and the joker just sat.

Give ya one thing: it's pretty. :>)

Allan

I am only 29 years old and was not with this tractor from the beginning so I can not swear that this is the original tach. If you saw this tractor in person and drove it, you would say it is. I'm not going to get in an arguing match whether this is a "Dupont" restoration. I know what I have. There's no way I can convince you by me just saying what's been done to it. To the best of my knowledge, all the "repairs" done to this tractor was because of it sitting and mostly consisted of seals and o-rings and things that dry rot except for the TA and clutch. If you had a tractor split apart, wouldnt you put a clutch in it if you were doing a restoration? I didnt know there was anything written in concrete that a TA couldnt go out on one with only 1700 hrs. Every other tractor I see says "TA not working" so it must be pretty common for them to tear up. I did not personally know the original owner, and he has passed away(I know some of you will be skeptical about this but you will just have to trust me) but my dad knew him and he told me today he was a catfish farmer and said this tractor was only used to turn a paddle wheel. Im sure he used the tractor for other odd jobs but this is what the tractor did the most. As far as the weights, here is a close up of them so you all will have to figure this out. I thought I had a pretty nice tractor in good shape till I posted on this board. I'm thinking about parting it out now. Anybody need a new TA?? Thanks to the ones who posted the kind words. Brad

If I had the money I would buy it from you. Some of those "experts" believe us southerners don't know squat about tractors.

As I said in an earlier post- "Darn nice looking tractor!"

CP in the Mississippi Delta

If you trust the repairs (warranty on any of this?) I would say $7000 to maybe $10,000 in my area (NE Kansas). The same tractor in green would easily be 40%-50% higher. Its kind of hard to guage because you just don't see many (any?) "nice" 1206s any more. You still see real low houred 1256s & 1456s come up for sale in their work cloths that don't seem to bring all that much. The real demand is for the "8" sized tractors.

If you don't trust the repairs (a good shop will give a minimum hours warranty) I wouldn't even bother. All it takes is one bolt torqued to the wrong spec and you'll spend thousands in repairs for the rear end.

The average life of a TA on 06 and 56 series tractors with normal use is about 3,000 hours. Note I said normal use, as in plowing, discing, etc. With the light use you describe, why would the TA need to be replaced at 1700 hours?

As for price, I would say the going price for an average 1206 plus a thousand or so extra for it being a sharp looking unit. In the automotive business, I've seen too many people put $3,000 worth of repairs into a $2,000 vehicle and expect to sell it for $6,000.

Are you sure on the hours?

It is a sharp looking 1206 though. You did a nice job on it.(:~})

Gary

Are you sure on the hours?"

Don't forget the TA having been completely replaced. We've needed less work done on our 1206 with 10,000 hours.

Either the hours are wrong or somebody ripped the crap out of this tractor. They are/were pretty popular in tractor pulls because the it's so easy to "turn up" the power with the turbo and their relatively light weight.

Give the guy a break and quit nit-picking everything, he just wanted a price, not to be preached to.

BTW, if you look close enough you can see the inside tire, and if you read his discription he says"the INSIDE back tires have rear weights on them".

Darn nice looking tractor!!!