I think it is funny how some folks get so bent out of shape about a customized tractor. The SHTA is just a plain and simple cool tractor. It would have likely outsold the SMTA had IH actually built one. Even better, the price of a true SHTA, if one had been built, would have been selling for more than the SMTAs today. Just look at SHs vs. SMs.
To each his own. It is a good tractor and everyone know it wasn't built. But it is the coolest thing. No one wants a 300, but folks will stand in line for a SH. Go figure.
And as for the asking prices, try to build one buying up two tractors and see what you end up with.
I am putting one together because it is what I want. I don't really care about the casting codes or trying to make it look like it is real. I want mine to look like it could have come off the line, but obviously wouldn't have. I am actually taking off all the casting date codes. Because if this was a factory prototype, they wouldn't have taken the effort to cast in date codes to track the material. They didn't care about when it was made. They kept track with unit numbers on the tractor. So having any casting date codes wouldn't be correct anyway. That was reserved for production iron.
Either way, this is my tractor and it is what I want. I am not ruining two tractors, I am saving iron that was headed for China to come back as over priced crap we don't need.
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