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1954 was the only year for the super M TA also most of the stage 2 super H's were made. Both are highly desired tractors.
 
Also the Super A1 was only made in 1954. On the other hand I have 3 1953's, not planned just coincidence. I haven't noticed any run on 54's, except for the MTA. A lot of people insist that the Stage 2 Super H was only made in 54, not true.
 
What always has amazed me is that the SMTAs bring a pemium and yet they built less SW6TAs during the same short time period and they bring about half what an SMTA will.
 
(quoted from post at 07:00:51 01/29/12) 1954 is special to me but I have never owned a tractor from that year yet.
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A '54 super C would be special to me... It was the last [u:64f8ec9de6]new[/u:64f8ec9de6] tractor my dad bought. I always thought it was a '55 because Dad bought it in about March of '56 and the dealer gave Dad his choice of a "carry-over" Super C or a 200. I think there was only a couple hundred difference, but Dad took the Super C. I was assuming a "carry-over" meant just from the previous year, but I guess the dealer had it longer than a year. This was a small Iowa town dealer that went out of business and moved about a year later... too bad, he had a cute daughter in my HS class.
 
(quoted from post at 20:24:55 01/28/12) 1954 was the only year for the super M TA also most of the stage 2 super H's were made. Both are highly desired tractors.
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Besides the MTA's the last [u:903a1da32a]few[/u:903a1da32a] Super M's were produced.
 
I just found this Super M that is a 54,
I think they were only built in Jan, of 54
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There's an older gentleman here in the neighborhood who was in high school in 1954 who worked a half day for the local IH dealership in town. He said when the 200 model Farmalls were introduced there was some very special pricing to the dealers on the remaining Super C's left over. Our local dealership (now long closed) bought a whole flat car of them which were shipped with the wheels turned in. He said he spent days getting them off the rail car and turning wheels around. He had to drive them through town from the grain elevator where the rail siding was located to the dealership. To this day there are still lots of old used 1954 SC's still in the area. He said it took a couple years to get them all sold off the lot.
 
I think you can blame ME for some of that on the 1954 Super M

Me and another forum member were thinking they are probably MORE rare than a 1954 Super M TA.

Since the 54 Super M was made ONLY in the first quarter of the year,it would make for FEWER of these.(IMO)
 
Yea,I STILL do not know what was SO special about that 1954 Super M with the "Torq Amplifier"?????

I PURPOSELY passed up on 2 different Super MTAs while looking for my 53 Super M.I DID NOT want to get into the expense of haveing to ever replace those planetarys!!!
 
Well the TA was and is the finest way to make a tractor work under load, or get it to road speed in high gear. They do not break. Ours is still operating from 1957. and it was used all the time! Jim
 
I believe your statement Jim.Would NOT even doubt it! ;)

I was probably MORE afraid of getting someone's "damaged" SM TA with a "half a$$" repair job done to it that would cost me half as much AGAIN of what I had just paid for the tractor.

I am NOT putting down the TA feature at all.How many years did IH put in a TA anyway??? It was over 20 years,wasnt it???

Like my dad told me; "Dont argue with sucess!" ;)
 
(quoted from post at 12:52:11 01/29/12) There's an older gentleman here in the neighborhood who was in high school in 1954 who worked a half day for the local IH dealership in town. He said when the 200 model Farmalls were introduced there was some very special pricing to the dealers on the remaining Super C's left over. Our local dealership (now long closed) bought a whole flat car of them which were shipped with the wheels turned in. He said he spent days getting them off the rail car and turning wheels around. He had to drive them through town from the grain elevator where the rail siding was located to the dealership. To this day there are still lots of old used 1954 SC's still in the area. He said it took a couple years to get them all sold off the lot.
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I sure put in a lot of hours on that Super C... it was the only tractor we had on 100 acres from spring '56 to the fall of '58. I did almost all the plowing, disking, dragging, (Dad did the planting) cultivating, mowing, raking, hauling hay bales, even pulled an AC All-Crop and one row Wood Bros. picker with it for a couple of years, and did many of those things even after getting a bigger tractor and renting more ground. Only thing we didn't like was it used about twice the gas of the C we had before that.
I doubt our local dealer bought that many of them as he normally only stocked about 1 or 2 of each size that sold well locally... C, H and M size.
 
My favorite is still the 1953 Super M stage II, only made in 53' I know the MTA was stage II also. My personal opinion I never really cared for the handle setup on the MTA, 300-450, 460-560. My dad also had a 55' 400 and the little rod that your thumb would press down would always press hard. Example of a incident with my dad's cousin who had a 450, him and another guy were unloading silage and the wagon broke down. When the wagon was ready to run my dad's cousin started to engaged the PTO, low and behold his overall's started to get wrapped around the PTO. Well he tried to shut down the PTO and the lever wouldn't disengaged. A broken leg resulted in the incident and never used that 450 again with any implement that required a PTO. My dad's cousin went out and bought a new 756 in 1969. It would be nice to have a MTA, but I'm not going get excited if I don't have one.
 
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