Showing posts with label Minneapolis Moline Model UDLX. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Minneapolis Moline Model UDLX. Show all posts
Monday, November 14, 2022
Saturday, December 03, 2016
the Keystone Antique Tractor Museum has 260 perfectly restored tractors, 170 on display in Colonial Heights, VA
One of the largest private collections of pre-1960 totally restored tractors, collectible cars and antique trucks on the east coast.
Keith Jones has a passion for all kinds of tractors dating back to the first one he fell in love with.
Sitting in an overgrown patch of weeds, a blanket of honeysuckle had made the farm tractor its own private trellis.
Keith learned that his aunt was planning to send the farm tractor off to auction, to be sold to the highest bidder. Approaching his aunt Keith told her that he wanted the farm tractor. She said, “that he could bid on the John Deere M, just like everyone else!”
Paying close to fourteen hundred dollars for his uncle’s old farm tractor, the John Deere M that he came to love.
Weeks later, to Keith’s surprise, his Aunt gave him back his money. She told him, “that his Uncle always wanted him to have it, but she didn’t want to just hand it over to him; she wanted him to earn it.”
Keith went on to restore the old farm tractor back to show quality. The restoration of the old honeysuckled covered John Deere M had Keith’s undivided attention, and throughout the years Keith has collected, and restored over 200 antique farm tractors and vintage road trucks that are now housed in the Keystone Tractor Works Museum.
http://carzhunt.blogspot.com/2014/04/tractor-museum-part-2-plus.html
http://www.petersburgarea.org/attractions/keystone-tractor-works
http://www.keystonetractorworks.com/about-us/
Wednesday, June 04, 2008
1938 Minneapolis Moline Model UDLX
2nd pair of images fromYears ahead of its time, the UDLX (ultra deluxe) featured the first factory built tractor cab with radio, cigar lighter, heater, hub caps, and paneling. Other features included 40 mph road gear, headlights, and even a license plate. Only about 125 were built. They sold for $1,800, double what other tractors sold for at the time. Some were used by custom combine operators in wheat country, others saw service delivering mail in the winter on snow-clogged northern rural roads. 
The last page in Haggerty Ins Co monthly mini magazine about autorelated stuff had a great write up on this 1938 tractor that was a response to the growing trend of farmers who were using the family car as a tractor, or vice versa... due to the costs of having two vehicles, etc etc. I've posted the photo of the midnight joyride where some teens were goofing off with a early ford car that was attached to a tractor like device that used the Ford as the engine, but the device provided the tractor tires, etc.
The last page in Haggerty Ins Co monthly mini magazine about autorelated stuff had a great write up on this 1938 tractor that was a response to the growing trend of farmers who were using the family car as a tractor, or vice versa... due to the costs of having two vehicles, etc etc. I've posted the photo of the midnight joyride where some teens were goofing off with a early ford car that was attached to a tractor like device that used the Ford as the engine, but the device provided the tractor tires, etc.From the large amount of coverage on the internet, it seems like I may be among the last to learn of these unusual tractors. For more about them: http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=101595
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