hdsdcouple |
06-11-2013 06:32 AM |
Possible mega find
Well i just have to tell someone, so you all are it. I think i might have hit the deal of a life time. i drive truck and i often see places to stop and see if they have old garden tractors and parts and stuff. normally dont get to stop but i write down locations and such them revist them on the weekends or with phone calls. well yesterday i seen a place where the grounds where covered with old 50's thru 70's farm tractors. It also had a huge shop and showroom building, but looked long gone as a dealership. So on the way home on my run i decide to just stop and see what they had going on, and they had a farmall cub i was interested in. I walk into what was once a huge parts / show room and it was so stuffed with parts the back shelves over flowed to the floor to the front counter to the show room floor and now was piled several feet high every where. so i made my way down a 100 foot long 2 foot wide path to where these two older men where sitting and asked if they had any old cub cadet part, attachments or tractor out in the yard. I was told they didn't know the owner was at lunch. So talking to them a bit i was going to call the owner as they didn't really know what was in the massive piles of stuff. so i turned around to leave and there it was. Jackpot what looked to be a a show room floor demo cub cadet original cover by boxes. upon a small heart attack, a surge of happy i inspect the tractor. original pant (seals and rubber not paint over) very little oil/dirt build up on motor area. Not one of the holes where worn from attachment being on the tractor. was signs that a front attachment was one it and the trailer hitch area had some paint chips. but over all i don't think this tractor ever had a home besides at this dealership of years past. the worker called his boss and told him i was going crazy over this tractor, the owner and the worker talked and i was told if i wanted it he would let it go. After talkign to the worker further he told me he had been there 22 years and that tractor was sitting there when he started and it was sitting there prior to him starting when he would come in for parts. So it is possible that it has sat there for 25 plus years. I am currently waiting for the owner to return my call today. I will keep you all up todate on the going ons with her. I am hoping for the best but till i get the real story from the owner i am not getting my hopes up to high.
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