This was back twenty years ago when the two cylinder craze was in high gear. My friend wanted a JD "G". They had gone from 5-6 hundred dollars to 2-3 thousand in just a few years. You have to remember that this was before the Internet. He placed an ad in a major farm publication looking for one. He got a reply from West Virginia saying they had a fresh painted one for $900. They conversed for a about a month by mail. HE finally send them a cashiers check for the $900 plus an additional $400 dollars they agreed to deliver the tractor to him for. About this time I became aware of the "deal". He was over bragging about how he had found a JD "G" for half what I was asking for a good one I had.
He got his tractor a few days later. If I had not been good friends with the mail carrier he would have been able to hide his "good" deal. What he got in the MAIL was a JD "G" toy tractor that was freshly painted with a spray can over the mud and grim.
HE even drove to West Virginia to look for HIS tractor. He had been writing to a post office box in a really small town. The local Post Master laughed at him. He tried to get the Post office involved. They told him he was out of luck as he had received what he had been sold: A JD "G" with fresh paint. Neither one of the two had ever stated that it was for a full size tractor. A local lawyer there told him he was out of luck trying to sue.
He has the honor of having the highest priced toy JD "G" tractor I know of.
This is like these guys that are sending for parts and stuff from England and other far away places. If your as naive as this you kind of deserve the skinning you are going to get.
Just about any part you want is available here in the US. Never pay for anything without seeing it first. I get many old parts here COD. If they are not what I think they should be I refuse delivery.
He got his tractor a few days later. If I had not been good friends with the mail carrier he would have been able to hide his "good" deal. What he got in the MAIL was a JD "G" toy tractor that was freshly painted with a spray can over the mud and grim.
HE even drove to West Virginia to look for HIS tractor. He had been writing to a post office box in a really small town. The local Post Master laughed at him. He tried to get the Post office involved. They told him he was out of luck as he had received what he had been sold: A JD "G" with fresh paint. Neither one of the two had ever stated that it was for a full size tractor. A local lawyer there told him he was out of luck trying to sue.
He has the honor of having the highest priced toy JD "G" tractor I know of.
This is like these guys that are sending for parts and stuff from England and other far away places. If your as naive as this you kind of deserve the skinning you are going to get.
Just about any part you want is available here in the US. Never pay for anything without seeing it first. I get many old parts here COD. If they are not what I think they should be I refuse delivery.