Getting hot out there, so I'm back at the hotel room chillin'.
Tractors won't sell until tomorrow. People are here from all over the world, but especially Europe and Australia. Met a guy from the Lamborghini club in Italy who came all the way here looking to bid on an English language brochure for a Lambo 2 cylinder crawler!
This photo is of one small batch of the engines that sold this morning. I don't think any went for less that $200 or more than $1000. There were at least 100 of them. The Hart-Parr 60 in the background (sorry I couldn't get a better pic) may bring close to half a mil.
Might not go for more than $50k. I like these smaller tractors myself, but they don't make the ground shake and that's what a lot of guys want.
Another rare and interesting pre 1920 tractor.
This OilPull Z isn't pretty but mechanically it is like new. It's about a 1925 model. $50 to $100k, I can't say.
Yubas were made in California for orange groves and got sued out of existence. This small one is very rare. Only one I've ever seen. You're looking at way over $100,000 worth of OilPulls in the background. The GasPull (in the back center, green w/red wheels) might bring that much on it's own.
This is the one that everyone expects to take the show. I know, not much to look at, but it is historically significant. It's the only one extant of six Samson model As that General Motors built in the mid-twenties. If just a couple of executive decisions had gone differently based on the performance of this tractor, we might be seeing GM gray all over the midwest instead of John Deere green. There are both GM enthusiasts and tractor enthusiasts vying for it, so it has a double draw, hence the great expectations.