You know it's funny when some of us can't remember the more important things in life. For example, trying to remember if you paid the telephone bill or not. But ask anyone of us when or where we bought our first cub. We'll tell you every detail on how we found them, including the mileage.
I still remember when I bought my first cub, and of course everyone knows which one that is. My OL' Girl. My family and I were headed to a city thats located about 10 miles north of us named Slaton Tx, and in that city there's a lawn repair shop that we do business with when it comes to parts and things of that nature. Well, while driving in the city of Slaton, we passed in front of a store that's named "Second Time Around". And in that store they sell used but good stuff there. I really did'nt pay much attention to it that day as we passed it, until I heard my brother say to me "Hey look Matt, there's an old tractor parked in front of the store". I really didn't think much of it until I asked him "what color was it". My brother answered back by saying "it looked yellow and white". As soon as he said that, I knew for sure that it had to be a cub. So after we went to the lawn repair shop and did what we had do there, I high tailed it back to the Second Time Around store. And sure enough there she was, it was an old 1961 IH Cub Cadet "Original". She was looking as beautiful as she could ever be. You could honestly tell that the previous owner had really neglected her big time. But that was ok, because she was fixing to be mine. My Dad and I had already been standing there for about 15 minutes or so before the sales man saw us standing there looking at the cub. So he approached us asking my dad and I if he could help us with anything. I immediately spoke up by saying " Yes sir, how much are you asking for the cub?" He's response was "$225.00 even". So I told him "I'll take it." Just before he took my money, he fired up the old cub and drove around the parking lot with it, to show me that the engine worked along with the transmission. He even engaged the deck too. So after the quick demo, he started off by saying,"son, the engine on this tractor is a go-kart engine". My response to that was "is that what the previous owner told you???" He says "No, but you can tell that's what it is though." So I told him "that's fine". I knew better than to believe that, since I had already been studying cubs for quite sometime before that. I could tell that was the original engine that the tractor came with. So anyway, after the purchase was complete I told the guy to just place it in the back of the store, and that I would be back in the morning with my pickup and trailer. So all that night I could'nt sleep just thinking about bringing home that old cub. Morning finally came, I headed out to Slaton with my pickup and trailer to get the OL' Girl, and sure enough once I got there they had her ready for pickup. We loaded her onto the trailer, said my thank you's to them and off we went. All on the way home, I would look through the rear view mirror and see that old cub riding shotgun on the trailer. And it almost seemed as if she had a happy look, just knowing that she had a new home and a new owner. And the rest is history.
Here's the before pic.
