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I'll try to keep this short-- A couple of years ago at a local county fair, it was getting late in the evening and they were down to the last class of the big standard wheatland tractors. We have a large JD presence in the area so the class had JD 80's 820's, 830's etc. and the green and yellow guys thought they had things goin' their way. All of their tractors were good runners but also painted up nice. All of a sudden, toward the end of the class, onto the track comes this unpainted and rather disreputable looking, International 660 and the driver looked like he could use a coat of paint too. But my son and I got to looking that tractor over before he pulled and there was lots of indications that that 660 had had some recent engine work; ya'know, engine not greasy or snotty, new gaskets, and new bolt heads showing, etc. Before he even hooked, my son and I concluded that he had that tractor lookin' pretty good where it counts: the "business" end. Up to this point, none of the JD's had done a full pull but some had come close. Well this old boy and his 660 hooked up and I swear by heavens that he would still be pullin' that sled today somewhere between NYS and Kansas City if they hadn't stopped him before he went out of the fairgrounds gate with the sled. Moral of the story? Don't judge a tractor by its paint job; judge it by how well it runs.
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