My two cents...

Posted by Matt from CT on August 25, 2005 at 07:09:31 from (66.181.93.142):

In Reply to: Re: what makes the John Deere Collectors so Flakey posted by Mike M on August 25, 2005 at 06:06:46:

They're the most "collectible" by people who decide out of the blue to do tractors.

Since they have more people collecting, biggest chance of running into the bee's behinds and people who are into for it other reasons.

One of my friends restores JDs.

He got into it after being bored with restoring Porsches with his dad.

And goodness knows, you don't want to even risk scratching one of the Porsches -- the cars where to look pretty in the garage, but traveled everywhere by covered trailer.

And pretty much the JD are the same way -- gleamingly pristine, but if a kid with ice-cream sticky fingers comes within 10 feet of it at a fair he's on the verge of having a stroke.

I know he finds the mechanical & paint work relaxing. I'm sure he has pride in showing it off, which is OK.

But I guess like cars and guns...keep 'em clean to show you take care of your stuff, but darn it go out and use it and let people touch and feel (safely) around it.

I'm sure there are collectors of every color who act similiarly; but I think the JDs are the ones that attract the most people who aren't doing it to only relive childhood, or like me 'cause they need a tractor and find it relaxing tinkering on it after the office...but are looking for "projects" to restore -- whether a car, aircraft, or tractor.

Hope I made some sense in that babbling :)

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