My 1811 has steel side panels and hood and I don't understand how the cost could have been so much greater than plastic panels. I guess a few bucks here and a few more there add up to real money but after all they did stick the CC name plate on them. JD did the same thing and cracks for no obvious reason seem to appear on them. I have redone several in the 400 series and they all had plastic panel issues. I agree that the least they could/should have done was to make the outer frame out of metal and then the mounting holes would have had something to take the stress of over tightening the screws and vibration that plastic could never handle. That makes these older "All steel" models just that more desirable. Has anyone tried to adapt the old steel panels to the plastic panel tractors?
