Picked Up A 1200 Today!!
 

Today I picked up a real nice original model 1200. Runs and drives excellent! The mower deck is near perfect and has a creeper gear!!:beer2: This is my very first Quietline series Cub and I now know why they are called "Quietlines" after having Originals you can hardly hear this thing:biggrin2: I have a couple questions right off the bat...does the 1200 take a steering wheel cap or the decal? I would like to have one of those. Also the PO has a piece of wire tying the side panels together with a piece of wire above the engine. Was there a rod or some kind of bracket that was to fasten the side panels? Other than those two minor things the tractor seems great. Any help is appreciated as always.

Martin,
nice find on the 1200,creeper is a plus.
there should be a long spring connected to the side panels, and there were two different steering wheels,got a pic of yours, and we could tell you what you need.

Congratulations on getting your first QL 1200! I just mowed 5 yards with my 1200 today. You are really going to enjoy that cub in great original condition. My 1200 has the decal tin on it.

Cub Cadet 123

Thanks Lew, I don't have a picture of the steering wheel I will have to take one in the morning because it was well after dark before I got home with it. The pictures I posted were taken in the parking lot of an outlet mall on our way home (gotta keep the wife happy too ya know:biggrin2:)

Great find Martin. X2 on the creeper, very nice. You should also have thumbscrews on the rear of each side panel as well. Congrats on your quiet line.

Thanks! I plan on doing some mowing with this one as well.

Thank You! I will have to check on the thumbscrews as well but I assume they are there I am just missing what I now know to be the spring.

Congrats on the 1200 Martin! You are on a roll!
Remember to check the iso mounts and the driveline in it.
I'm trying to see the steering wheel from the pics and still can't make it out. If the steering wheel has the finger indentations on the bottom it takes the decal and if it is smooth it takes the cap. If that makes sense!:biggrin2:

Thanks Mike!! I will be sure to check the Iso mounts and driveline. I zoomed in on the pictures I took yesterday and the steering wheel has the finger indentations in it so a decal it is. I will put up some more pics including the steering wheel anyway in a bit.

Nice 1200. Looks like the Waterloo outlet mall? Was just there last week

Thanks! Yes that's exactly where that was:biggrin2:

More Pictures
 

Here are a few more pictures of the 1200. The serial # is 2050570U590456 if someone could tell me the month/year it was built.

Steering Wheel
 

Couple of the steering wheel. Mike says I need the decal for it not the cap so that's on my list:biggrin2:

Very nice Martin, nice dealer sticker, I see the bottom hitch bracket for a sleeve hitch?:bigthink:

Thanks Nick! Yeah I thought the dealer sticker was pretty neat...yes it has the bottom bracket for a sleeve hitch.

July of 1976.
I was on the hudson river watching the bicentennial fourth of July fireworks.

Nick , darn auto spell...
I guess you would like one?

Thanks Lew!! And 12 years after that I came about:biggrin2:

Nice 1200, Martin!

Interesting. I was 3 months old And born in Hudson! Bicentennial baby!

The 1200 looks good Martin!:beerchug:

Looks good Martin!!! But I'm not QL guy! Knowing you, you won't be either!! :biggrin2:

Why's that Eric? Because all the extra stuff on them like everywhere you look another guard?:biggrin2:

No because your more of a narrow frame round fender kind a guy, like me!!!!! :biggrin2:

Very true..your spot on with that one!!:beerchug:

Good looking 1200! The paints in great shape on her yet!