Your best bet is to keep an eye on the eBay listings. Be prepared to get out the checkbook, though: I've seen double-bung fuel tanks go for as much as $455 in recent months, if it's a particularly nice one.You may want to contact The Fordson House in Escanaba, Michigan (www.thefordsonhouse.com), if only to get a price quote. Their web site lists just about every other part you may need for a Fordson restoration, but certain hard-to-find items (fuel tanks, for example) simply have "contact us" in the price column. And, based on what their bids are on Fordson items on eBay, whatever they turn around and re-sell is not going to be cheap... Nobody seems to be making repro's of these; I don't know why, as the fuel tank is one of the common weak points on tractors that have been sitting for years (the tank sits on some cotton webbing to keep it from chafing on the frame; the cotton retains moisture and causes the tank to rust where it contacts the cotton).. I wrote to the folks at Lang's Old Car Parts (www.modeltford.com), beacuse they have repro parts and tanks for just about every kind of early Ford, from 1909 on, but the response I received suggested that I watch the eBay listings. Perhaps if there was enough of a demand, they'd call up China and have them stamp out a few hundred? Interestingly enough, the Fordson parts catalog that I have (dated 1 August 1926) lists the replacement cost of the fuel tank as $12 (and the illustration shows the fuel caps included with it)... Now if I can just work the bugs out of that time machine I been workin' on in the basement, I'll go back and git a couple fer us... -- Maine Fordson
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