TRACTOR DILEMA

Like some of the guys have sadi I would cringe if it was a rare tractor or something but there are lots of Hs around.

As for my ideas, I would stay with a close to 2150 shade of red but would use a metalic flake in it and candy coat it to add depth. I would take H decals to someone and have then modify the look of them on a computer to look more sporty, like maybe a flaming H or something. I would add ghost flame to the front.

I would tub out the tires with wide low profile tires and do something cool with real small tires and aluminum rims.

The engine I am torn on, part of me says get a 6 cylinder in there and part says just mod the original and put on a straight stack. Not sure which I would go with. OR you could get a hold of a 400 engine or even an M and cram that in, mod it and pipe it.

You definetly have to keep us up dated to the progress of this project, we're on pins and needles here.

I've had the same idea for nearly two decades. I want to get a small Ford like the 8n, put a big chromed V-8 in it, with chromed headers angling out and upward like dragsters.

Of course the tractor would have BIG wide tires front and rear.

In the 1970s, the Goodyear tire dealer in Salina, KS had such a Ford with only tire modifications. Think of flotation tires like the big spray rigs use. I've got a picture with my little girl standing beside it.

The dealer said he used it in parades and to catch the eye of customers driving by. Biggest problem with it was that the larger tires really made it too fast for parade speed.

Yes sir, take that "H" and have some fun. I'll expect to see it in the Daryl Starbird car show in Wichita next year.

As long as you've got the stock H for people to compare it to, I think a little forgiveness is in order here...and I think that, done right, the result could be one bi+chin' Farmall!

Cooooo ool

Gordon @ NH

However have given some thought to attaching a fake Nitrous Oxide bottle system on my Ford Jubilee just to hear some comments from various folks.