Posted by Red Mist on September 14, 2009 at 10:55:24 from (67.142.130.42):
In Reply to: Super H-TA posted by Janicholson on September 14, 2009 at 07:20:12:
Janicholson said: (quoted from post at 07:20:12 09/14/09) The best SHTA is made from the assorted parts from tractors that are being scrapped. This uses parts that would be melted, giving them new life.
There were none ever built at IH, They are all hand made, and there may be hundreds, if not more than a thousand floating around.
If done really well, they are fun to look at (and use), as a 300 is a fine tractor.
Custom vehicles are prase worthy.
I own a CJ3B Jeep with a IH K series cab,
A Austin Healy with total Toyota Corolla inside the wheels and bodywork, and a 51 GMC 3/4 PU with a dump bed that is hidden and looks stock. The effort is commendable when done well. JimN
I agree wtih you, Jim. My problem is not with folks building them; it lies with the owners claiming they are the REAL, RARE, VALUABLE thing.....
I am affiliated with a vintage stock car racing group. Each year, it seems, some guy digs some short-track pile of junk out of a North Carolina gully and restores it. Then, in no time, he claims it was the car Fireball Roberts drove to victory in the 1962 Daytona Firecracker 250 - and he sells it for mega-bucks to some poor schnook who believes the story..... Nobody is going to question what your '51 GMC is. But, some novice tractor collector might take it in the shorts on a SHTA. I've got a problem with that - and that is something we here on the forum need to keep warning folks about. The more SHTA's that are built, the more there is the chance somebody will get snookered. Maybe not by the guy who built it, but the second or third owner...... they seem to "morph" over time, you see..
Mike
This post was edited by Red Mist at 10:59:39 09/14/09 2 times.
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