I Pressure Washed the Gold Demo.....

You can see on the hood side panel where someone used a scraper to remove the original 971 Select-O-Speed decal. The replacement transmission was also painted gold.
This tractor came with the exact same adjustable top link that is on DoubleNaughtDeuce (in the back ground of the lower photo).

soundguy

soundguy

The one on your tractor, looks similar to one my friend brought to me, it was seized and one threaded end has a bend in it, said made in england on it, I un seized it without using heat too, used a product by gasoila called free-all, though even with the coarse threads, this industrial penetrant did not get all the way in there, pays to keep these clean and lubed, went through this with the leveling box, 3/4 of a day + heated till it was dull orange, finally let loose, when these things seize they are stuck but good.

Top Link:

I recently came across a neat photo of that old place, will have to post that here, looks like I'm rained out the rest of the day right now, good thing too, inconvienent but we need it, going to be a soaker.

I"m not certain what models the pictured top link was originally supplied with but an identical one came with my 1951 8N when my Father bought it used in 1974. I"ve two of them.

Dean

That's an interesting find, don't ever recall seeing one of those gold ones at our place way back when, what is the next step can you salvage the gold paint and leave as is, or can it be documented and reapainted to match, kind of a tough call for one of these I'll bet.

There is not enough of the original gold paint to leave my Gold Demo as is. I will have to repaint it.