My Trip To TSC
 

Was uneventful ...... but the trip home was fun. I was about an 1/8 of a mile away when I saw the white & yellow on the side of the road. When I pulled over it turned out to be a 149 looking in pretty good condition. I looked it over and found it had a solid deck, good tires, nice paint ..... just a small wrinkle on the left rear fender. Owner came out and said take it for a ride, which I did and the trans felt good and engine sounded good. He says $650 and I had to say I have to think about it. That's when I walked around it one more time with it running and felt the air blowing out the front grill. I opened the hood to check and sure enough it had a blown head gasket. I showed him and he agreed I was right. The conversation then went like this.

Me -Blown head gasket, best I could do would be $400
Him-Nooo, I gotta get at least $500 out of it
Me -I understand, but I only have $450
Him-Aww, what the heck, I'll help you load it

I ran home to get the ramps, hit the ATM, brought her home. Took the deck off before loading so I wouldn't batter my wheel wells.

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Looks like a nice 149 you got there!!:biggrin2.gif:

Good deal! Tractor looks to be in great shape.

Good deal; nice looking 149. Lucky!

Nice score! You got a heck of a tractor, for a great deal! :beerchug:

Great score Tom! That's one nice looking 149!

sweet!! too bad around here all you see on the side of the road are craftsman LT1000s...... maybe one day!

Here too...but with no wheels!

Looks like she is in great shape ! Cheers

CC Rider
Nice 149 :ThumbsUp: