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Chip Foos 4020 fate

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Wonder what ever happened to the Chip Foos 4020 that Harold Beaver won a couple of years ago.
How about opinions on a good tractor candidate for Case/IH to do something with.Personally, I'd be more interested in a factory restored to stock tractor.
Maybe John Deere needs to do another tractor to "redeem" themselves?
 
Guide said Beaver thought JD was a more appropriate place for it, implied some "arrangement" was reached to get it there.
 
I've seen it at the Waterloo factory and also at the John Deere Fall Fest in Sept 2012. It looks much better in person than the pics. Lots of detail that pictures don't show.
 
I will agree that it was an ugly thing. They ruined a good JD 4020.

It is kind of like all those Companies having Orange County chopper make them motor cycles for the companies. They where ugly too.

If JD wanted something special. They should have had a JD collector restore one that was PERFECT in every way and give it away.
 
Couldn't agree more. I don't get involved in brand debates, or having restorations perfect right down to every tiny detail. But with the money spent, when it could have returned a tractor to original condition, that was almost sacrilegious.
 
I suppose it has something to do with my youth. My favorite "antique" tractors are AC "D" series. If I saw a restored D19D with factory three point I would probably spend too much to have it!
 
Ugly or not, I'll bet it is/was worth some serious money to the guy who won it, and will continue to be, since it is a FOOSE creation!
 
I'm not a fan of Foose' style but if that tractor had been restored it would just be another restored 4020.
That tractor wasn't intended to make most of the folks on this board happy, but I'm sure there are those that like it.
 
Told the Deere fans at work that if I won it, I'd hang a K5 Koyker loader on it and donate it to a dairy farm or feedlot!
 
(quoted from post at 18:21:10 02/15/14) I'm not a fan of Foose' style but if that tractor had been restored it would just be another restored 4020.
That tractor wasn't intended to make most of the folks on this board happy, but I'm sure there are those that like it.
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From what I understand it didn't make very many people happy anyway. The car guys thought it was stupid along with most of the tractor guys.

Me I don't care one way or another. I didn't enter to win it and didn't want it so it isn't my tractor. If it ain't mine I could really care less how a person builds up a tractor. It can be a dead stock restore, some mods for practical farming, modded as a puller or a Foose special. Heck you can paint it pick with purple accents and I would care. Long as it isn't mine.

Rick
 
I look at it as more of a work of art and imagination rather than the ruination of a good tractor. Lord knows we all differ in our definitions of what art is. There were zillions of 4020's made. Radically altering the looks of one 4020 won't make the world come to an end. A tractor is only cold, hard, heartless, feelingless steel. Jim
 

"Lord knows we all differ in our definitions of what art is".


Well, yes, I suppose there wouldn't be Elvis painted on velvet or "Dogs Playing Poker" if that weren't true. I guess an old geeezer like me still interprets things more in a form follows function context.
I suppose I'm more of a painting on velvet of "Dogs on an original 4020 discing" type. LOL

I think Pops1532's comment is probably right on target, too.
 
I like it, it's different. You can't go to a county fair or farm show without tripping over a restored 4020 raffle. There are plenty of them out there.
 
Now you got me all riled up, I used to have one of those dogs playing poker blanket things hanging on the wall in a upstairs bedroom where I used to live, don't remember seeing it since we moved 24 years ago. Think it's to late to go back and look for it?
 
(quoted from post at 01:37:31 02/16/14) JD Seller,
With all the years you were in the business, what is your absolute favorite?
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#1 would be a JD 4320. They just purred when running.
#2 Would be a Oliver 1655 JUst looked great and handled very well
 
You were also asking about a Case IH candidate. An International in that age range had a straight line design with right angle corners opposed to Deere's rounded hood. An old IH smoothed and rounded with swoopy curves would be a really big departure from the factory design but I doubt it would have as many people 'crying foul' as this 4020 project does.

I've always had the dream of designing a streamlined looking fiberglass cab with air conditioning for my SC Case. It will be separate from the tractor, sitting on airbags. High speed sprockets will go in the rear end too. With an AC compressor and an appropriately sized alternator it might not have much power left, but it won't be in the field anyway. If I did that I'd have to find another SC to replace it for a yard tractor. I doubt if anyone would chastise me for altering a beloved icon. Jim
 
Just saw it Friday at the John Deere tractor assembly plant in Waterloo IA. I don't know if this is a permanent display or moving. I work in Waterloo for Deere. Had to go there and saw it on display.
 
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