Part of the problem though is that people tend to want to buy and restore things that mean something to them. They will want the tractor that dad or grandpa had or the neighbor had and they wanted one too.
It's like classic cars, the money always goes to the cars that the current buyer demographic (men from 50 to 75 in the case of collector cars) had or wanted when they were young. Sticking with classic cars for the example, the big money is predictably in the 60s and 70s muscle cars, but the fastes growing segment of collector cars is cars made from 1980 to 1995. Younger collectors are coming into the market.
The problem is that tractors during the 1980s and 90s got bigger, more complex, and more computerized during this era.
So IMO we're going to have the problem in the future is because of the size and complexity of tractors, collecting and restoring "modern" tractors from the 1980s onward will be more and more difficult.
Yes, I'm all in favor of keeping the old stuff as well, but I'm afraid there's a line here where tractors will become almost impossible to keep and restore for future generations to see. In 2030, we'll see way more 1930s tractors than we'll see 1980s tractors and that's a shame, but I fear collecting and preserving equipment is going to become more and more difficult as time moves on.
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