Posted by paul on December 26, 2014 at 05:55:50 from (70.197.200.112):
In Reply to: Our tractor hobby posted by animal on December 25, 2014 at 18:40:58:
Typically people are interested in what they grew up with, or what grandpa had when they was 5......
Will 1980s machines pick up some interest in the next 20 years, and the older machines will still take up garage space, but not be quite as active?
After all we get to a point if you have 5 fully restored tractors in the shed, pull them out a couple times a year for a parade or plowing day, how much more goes into them? They are 'finished' don't need more work. I remember dad using the F20 on the corn picker boy I'd pay good money for a shiny one to remember..... But would my kids or their kids generation care about a shiny expensive F20, they have no connection to one.....
Farm ecconomy likely will go down hill here for a few years, town folk don't have the memories of grandpas tractors so much any more, as old restored iron gets sold where does the demand come from?
Not at all saying the deal is dead; lot of teenage and 20 and 30 year olds love tinkering with old iron still. But they don't want a high dollar fully restored tractor either, they want a work in progress. And maybe a few less kids, and a few less available hulks every year?
Would seem the hobby might be in a soft spell coming up?
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