Posted by Mike (WA) on January 07, 2008 at 09:54:30 from (69.10.197.227):
In Reply to: Minn. Moline UDLX posted by J Heitkemper on January 06, 2008 at 15:24:08:
They were a hard sell back in the day, not only because of the price (for the price, you could buy a better tractor, plus a Ford car), but because farmers (in the bad weather areas especially), were ashamed to be seen on them, while their neighbors toiled in the weather on open station rigs. There were still some left unsold into the war years, when everybody quit making tractors to help the war effort. One guy on this board several years ago told how his grandfather desperately needed a tractor during the war, as his old one "gave up the ghost", and all he could find was a UDLX. He bought it, but traded it in on the first new tractor that became available after the war.
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