Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Timing an H Farmall

Posted by Steve - IN on December 19, 2003 at 16:35:18 from (12.222.30.13):

In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Timing an H Farmall posted by The Red on December 19, 2003 at 14:44:20:

Smaller world yet. I've met John Peterson as he used to come to our annual meetings from time to time -- was with RGCY in Lawrence for 16 years, but that was >15 years ago -- all gone now. I think you guys used to be MM's for us, but memory fails. Roger Chase seemd to be the local guy who used to follow us closer than anybody. Gene Tanner is around 72 now and still shows up for work every day - bought some RJR thru him back in Aug. at ~32 and he thought I was nuts. Can't wait to call him in Jan. and sell it for >60. He'll just tell me it's always better to be lucky than good.

Don't know the guy up by Verizon. The big Farmall guys around here used to be the Reynolds family -- before they bought the JD dealership. The 50K an acre sounds a bit thin for here, maybe it's a bit cheaper 4 or 5 miles north. The guy with the JD's down the road sold out for 88K an acre and that was 7 or 8 years ago. Now it's all houses spaced 50 feet apart. A different Peterson turned the corn and bean field on our east fence line into cramped elbow, expensive housing laced with a golf course four or five years ago. Good to hear HSE has a bunch of land; maybe they won't bother with ours.

No relation around Brownsburg anymore, and the farm there (used to be RR#2 Brownsburg, now called 86th St.) is covered with houses. But I surely used to throw a lot of money into the oval track and road course in Clermont/IRP with Formula Ford/Mini Indy racing. There was a guy with a yellow Lola racing about that time who was a loan officer at AFNB / Bank One. You may have heard the story of how he "borrowed" the bank's money to finance his racing, and is now in the federal pen. Another guy from Plainfield hung in there and eventually won the national championship over at Mid Ohio. He said he went through 4 chassis, 27 engines, and 3 wives in the process. Then there was the judge from Noblesville who flipped his car over the 3rd turn wall on Saturday night, and handed out speeding fines next Monday morning. I had a chassis made in a barn north of Zionsville by a guy who worked at Merchants bank, married a gal with whose maiden name was Ayres (yeah, that store) and then went into the car building business.

I pass along these stories as they're very helpful to recount next time the distaff side might raise some objection about the expense and time involved in your tractor hobby.

take care,

Steve

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