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Re: My goodness!!! Why do these little dudes sell for so much?
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Posted by Tyler(WA) Look at it this way... on March 29, 2001 at 09:59:28 from (12.13.226.13):
In Reply to: My goodness!!! Why do these little dudes sell for so much? posted by Poppin' Johnny on March 28, 2001 at 15:30:59:
If I take a really great little '38 AC-B and make it show ready, it will be worth about $1800 to a collector. Take a newer AC-B with electric start, modern internally regulated alternator, generic old looking lights, flashy orange paint (not Persian Orange), modern muffler and carberator, Turf tires all around and add a Woods Belly mower. Now I have a Yuppie lawn mower that "Looks" like a "real farm tractor." Might add a cup holder for Latte's. I can sell a rig like that to a Yuppie with two acres and a horse stall and make him feel good about having it for just under $5000. Compared to the cost of a new John Deere sheet metal riding lawn mower, it looks even better. These "wannabe" farmers have a draw to looking like a farmer but don't have the time to work on a tractor themselves. If I offer them the realization of their dream with a "serious cast iron tractor" they'll come running with their money. These type of "farmers" don't have the room to opperate a real tractor so the small tractors fit their purposes and they have the cash to spend on one. I might work up a 50's model B for them but I just couldn't do that to a vintage tractor.
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