When Charlie Bortner and Wyatt Myers spotted a 1938 Farmall F-20, they knew it needed a lot of work. A 6-month FFA project turned into a two-year undertaking, and the finished project is polished ...
What started as a four-page flier advertising “new parts for old tractors” has grown into a 616-page, phone book-sized catalog of more than 5,000 parts. Those parts are designed to keep old tractors ...
Dusti Snider’s restored 1957 Ford 640 looks sharp, with new lights, wiring, and fresh Ford red and gray paint. But he left one spot untouched – a small patch of bare steel on the right fender where ...
Joe Peeper gets a gleam in his eye whenever he sees the distinctive color combination of flambeau red, desert sunset and battleship gray or the metal insignia of Old Abe, the American eagle mascot ...
FROM Pebble Beach, Calif., to Greenwich, Conn., and at dozens of picturesque settings in between, shows for vintage vehicles offer enthusiasts the opportunity to rub elbows with historic machinery in ...
HENDERSON, Minn. — Kyle Lieske of Henderson has been interested in working with tractors since he was a little boy. His father, Ron, remembers when he would play farm and pretend to fix tractors. All ...
Cambridge vintage tractor enthusiast Derek Holm didn’t gain his love of farm machinery from a farming background but from his father, who sold Ford and David Browne tractors during the 1970s. “When I ...
WILLIAMSTON — Eason Lilley remembers climbing onto a big, shiny, new red tractor in the Martin Tractor and Truck showroom, now Lilley International, when he was 9 years old in 1968. “It was the ...
Riley Hanson always has been interested in tinkering, and the Melrose-Mindoro senior quickly learned a golden rule of working with engines and machines. “When you take things apart, it usually leads ...
Now that the stinging insects are gone, the Charleston High School FFA chapter’s work to restore a 55-year-old tractor might not be that tough. The tractor’s been through a fire and sat unused in a ...