Bob Huntress
Member
I'm a little of a purist, but, that only goes so far. I frequently hear people talk about keeping their 6volt systems because they were what the tractor originally would have had. I reminds me of a very old machine shop owner I knew in the early 1980's in east TN. He was the one who explained that back in the day most people didn't buy tractors. He told me that before WW2 they would buy the most stripped down automoble the factory would sell, send it to a machine shop that would build a tractor out of it. I tend to believe that may have been a common practice in those way back days. If this be true, factory original isn't something that would be as critical, as most tractors depended on not being such. Is the account of this nameless machine shop owner common enough, to thing that small farms weren't operating large numbers of the factory tractors that we see on this site?