It's been along time since I seen a tractor (say pre 1960 tractor) sold that I thought a guy could flip and make any money. There are plenty out there that are worth the money to fix up and then use. If you have a use for them. But to fix up and then flip for profit, the market just isn't there anymore. That ship has sailed on pre 1960 stuff.
In the right area, a guy might do OK on garden sized tractors. Might be better than doing nothing else with your time, but probably not going to support yourself at it, or get rich. Kind of like a hobby that 'might' put a few dollars in your pocket. Might be lucky to break even also.
The young guys want new stuff with all the modern stuff on them. The interest of the retired generation has moved up into the stuff after 1960. The bulk of the guys that 'were' interested in the pre 1950 stuff, have moved into the care homes or cemetaries. The remainder of that crowd otherwise, is getting to be few. Few enough that they are overwhelmed with the amount of it out there, and have likely accumulated as much of it as they need or like. Just because you have an interest in having 2 or 3, doesn't in anyway mean you'll be interested in owning 100 of them. You probably have this same feeling about your 8n. And that's about where everybody is at. If they have an interest in them at all. And the guy that already has one, isn't going to pay big bucks for another one.
The demand for old tractors is a different cookie than for old cars. More people have an interest in old cars. So bigger demand for them. But you can even see the same thing happening in that avenue. How big the interest has gotten to be in the later 60's early 70's muscle cars.
Ussually is what's hot in the collector world, is what the retired community remembers when they were young. Things that were new when they were young. Otherwise, it about has to be rare as hens teeth. Everybody can relate to automobiles. Not everybody can relate to tractors. And if they are not living on the right type property, they might not have a desire to own even if they have an interest.
Is what's really needed, is more people like yourself that's willing to buy, fix up, and then use. Plenty of room for that. To much room for that for flipping to really make sense. Mainly because the desire to use just really isn't there.
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