When I was a kid, bout 8yrs old, and just really getting into old cars, etc., there was the back half and hood of a '38 Willy's sedan sitting in our "used parts" inventory(junk pile). I asked grandad about it, he said it had belonged to a hired man and one day the spring shackles broke going to town on our rough trail roads we had at the time, so they pulled it home and cut the front of the body off and made a tractor cab out of it. Sure wish the complete car was still sitting here with broken shackles- those Willy's cars are big bucks now!
Back to topic- up until we switched to green tractors in the late 80's, we never had a "factory" cab on the place. Dad built 'em out of angle iron and plywood with plexiglass windows, etc. Even our 886, that came with just the Roll Over Protection top on it, got a plywood cab. Had heaters in 'em, but no AC
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