Why the price difference?

I have been trying to restore my grandfathers super c for a couple years now. Living in Iowa has been a detrement to parts searches, i guess you guys on the east coast have all the luck. I can buy a whole farmall H with a loader for $1500 but a c-123 or 135 engine is $500-600. Is this only one mans problem, or are whole tractors (not super c's) worth less than parts?

I've noticed, and no offence to anyone who has one, that people tend to get proud of the smaller IHs. Such as I've seen people wanting to sell their unrestored cub, A, B, and C for around the 2 grand mark while like you said 1500 can get an H or an M. Also it doesn't help that the Super C engines are not as plentiful

That is the going rate for them and if you have one for sale they don't last long.Last one I had ,rebuilt long block, sold in a couple days with quite a few inquires.BTW WFE for that tractor in good condition brings the same money and they go quickly also.

Vito

I think a lot has to due with the locality and what type of "real" farming was performed there. I think you won't find an abundance of them in Iowa because that is big farm and tillage country like corn and soybeans and that was mostly Farmall M series country. I've found the Farmall C and SC seemed to be fairly abundant in Pennsylvania and the vegetable and tabacco farming areas in other regions. The farms there must have been sized for the smaller Farmalls for the most part with little need for larger tractors. There appears to be a lot of implements there for the smaller Farmalls as well. I have a feeling the 4 and 5 plow size Farmalls probably fetch a higher price along the east coast as they were in smaller numbers in that area. At the Bloomsburg RPRU there were certainly a lot of hard to find restoration items for the C and SC tractors there which are next to impossible to find back in the midwest heartland area. This is just my feeling from the experience of attending the RPRU's in different locations and seeing tractors and implements from different areas of this country. Hope there is some valve here but that's enough for personal observations, Hal.

(quoted from post at 20:37:06 01/18/11) I think a lot has to due with the locality and what type of "real" farming was performed there. I think you won't find an abundance of them in Iowa because that is big farm and tillage country like corn and soybeans and that was mostly Farmall M series country. Hal.

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I was raised in NE Iowa and Cs and Super Cs were very plentiful back in the 50s... probably THE most popular small tractors around, even more than the N Fords around where I lived. Mom still had a C on the farm long after Dad passed away in '84, probably until about '89/'90.

Wish I had known that the C135s were worth something. Just gave away a C135 a few months ago to a guy who needed one.

Rick