Heres something to ponder, Allis was looking at something like 4 companies in the 80's to possibly merge with,I've read by other people on other forums that worked for AC, that they were having talks with Massey,and there was supposidly a AC 8000 tractor painted in MF colors for a dealer show or some kind of meeting... Imagine if the sell off of the AG division to Deutz never happened, If Massey and AC tied the knot... Would you have had Allis-Ferguson?? or Massey-Chalmers?? I think that might have worked, MF still owned Perkins at that time, AC was driving nails in there engine division's coffin, so could we have seen the replacements for the 8000 series,probably the 9000 series,powered by the 640? v8 used in the 2775 and 2805? Massey was out of the big tractor market by then with the closing of the detroit plant, so the larger models could have been based on a AC design with the smaller models filled out by a MF design,also at some point the R series Gleaners im sure were to be out soon,im sure they would have replaced MF's aging 750/60 850/60 machines,MF was looking for another way out of those too,hence why they bought the White rotary design, also AC had a pretty full implement line too,even though its future was a little shakey with the closing of the laPort factory... sorry for the long rant,just some pondering,and asking what if....
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