A few more from the Keystone Truck and Tractor collectio

This is from a visit to the private collection last week. I highly recommend, great collection of trucks and tractors, well worth the visit. Good food in the little caf as well, especially the pork bbq.
Keystone museum in Colonial Heights, VA--not far from Richmond.

Gerrit

A UDLX sold at estate auction in spring 2019 for 157,500 dollars -restored like your picture shows. Last week another UDLX sold at the Davenport, IA tractor auction for 205,000 dollars . They don't come up for sale much. One wonders if that tractor can continue that upward trend in value in the future. That is also an excellent restoration of a Ford 6000, just not often seen at shows.

Yes the 6000 was well done, the 901 not so much. I had the pork barbecue as well.

(quoted from post at 13:09:36 04/04/21) A UDLX sold at estate auction in spring 2019 for 157,500 dollars -restored like your picture shows. Last week another UDLX sold at the Davenport, IA tractor auction for 205,000 dollars . They don't come up for sale much. One wonders if that tractor can continue that upward trend in value in the future. That is also an excellent restoration of a Ford 6000, just not often seen at shows.

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After seeing the UDLX in person I can understand why they were so unpopular. I don't think many folks wanted a tractor they could use as a car, so the Minnie-Mo people had come up with a solution to a problem that didn't exist. And getting into the driver's seat looks to be something of a chore. Climbing aboard my open station Massey would be easy by comparison. Long hood and low stance makes for poor forward visibility from what I can tell, and the pedals are crammed together so the gas pedal is in the middle, down below the other two. Great exterior styling, but who wants to bounce around the fields and farmyard in a shiny thing with lots of sheetmetal that'll get banged up and dented the first time you hook onto something? For what a UDLX cost, someone who watched their nickels and dimes back in the day could buy a decent tractor for work and a couple used pickups or sedans for going into town.

Looks like they're finally coming into their own, and people actually want them--and this has been the trend for some time as you pointed out. I understand the novelty and the rarity of these things, not one of my favorite vintage machines, however. I like something that looks a little more tractor-like.

Gerrit