My 1450 restore is underway

[Bamafan]

Hi gang
As I posted in another thread. I came across this baby when I was helping a friend of mine clean his dads shop and selling stuff after they had to put him in a rest home. His dad had worked on tractors for over 50 years and had quite a collection of tractor related items including 5 cub cadets in the early to late 80s. Billy (my friend) told me his dad worked on all brands of tractors but was really partial to cubs. While poking around I noticed back in a corner of the shop something covered with a tarp. When I pulled the tarp there she sat partly torn down. I ask Billy about it and he told me his dad had bought it several years ago with the intentions of restoring it himself and had started working on it but never finished. He also told me that when his dad got it was running and was still cutting grass. Any way long story short I got the tractor and all the parts we could find and so far everything is here except the mower deck the ignition switch and the pto switch. Here's a pic or two of it the way the way I found it.