Couple pictures from 30-45 or so years ago

The tractor one is an Allis B it was the very first tractor engine I ever rebuilt and I did that some time around 1975 give or take a few years. The one of the car in the snow was taken in the late fall in Leigh NE around 45 years ago. I was 9 or 10 give or take a year or 2. Oh the car was a Ford Galaxy 500 I think. Oh by the way the tractor is parked in the field that I still farm/hay every year

nice pictures. Does the ac still run?

It got traded off many years ago. Many years ago I was in KC on business and a couple friend borrowed to pull them self's out of the creek. Well the tractor stalled on them, it was a hand crank only model. So they got there car out and went to get some gas thinking it had run out. They got back and the creek was coming up so they hooked a couple chains to it and left it there till they could get help to get it out. Creek got up and over the whole tractor. We took it all apart hoping to get it running again but it never did run right after that

I think you should write a book of your life experiences. It would be interesting reading . I would buy a copy!

Shoot I have forgotten so many thing it not funny. Bu ya been around the block a few to many times for my age. Shoot from the age of 15 when I got my first car license to the age of 18 I had at least 15 different cars. And some if I still had now would be worth a good bit

what do you think would be the rarest? IT might be that wd grader that you have. When I was young a friend of mine bought a shelby gt 500 kr covertible. It was smashed in the front end coverd up in someones backyard. HE made an offer and bought it cheap, It was definatly repairable but instead he sold the motor and we put some of the shelby parts on his mustang. The rest of the car we cut up with a sawsall and scrapped. When he sees those shelbys and what they are now, he wants to cry.

Around 1960 I worked at an orchard hauling in the crates of picked apples. One of the tractors was a Allis B with only the hand crank. Sometimes when cranking if it didn't start it would back fire and turn over backwards. This would throw out a little of the oil from the air cleaner and it would land on the hood. We named it oily and the name stuck. We had a fairly large two wheel trailer to haul the crates of apples and this would put quite a bit of weight on the rear wheels of the tractor. The orchards were hilly and this weight would help to pull the loads out of the orchard. Many times we would come up the hill with both front wheels in the air and steer with the brakes. Back then that was fun and all in a days work. The large tractor that we had back then was a grey 35 Ferguson. The boss used that to pull the sprayer around and I used it with a rotary mower to cut up all of the pruning brush after we put it in windrows. Talk about having to keep your head low to keep from getting hit with the larger pieces. There was one guy that could really throw an apple. He would be throwing them at me over the hill even after I was out of sight, so I had to keep looking back to avoid getting hit. I kind of miss those days.

Well one of them would have been an Alfa Romeo Gallia super. It was a 1967 4 door sedan with 4 wheel disk brakes dual over head cams and 2 2 barrel side draft Weber carbs. Found out many years later those where not imported to the U.S. but where brought in but service men coming back here from Italy or so I have been told. I would do 165 plus, I know because I got it up to taht one time. Another odd ball thing I had way back when was a pair of Triumph tiger 200s motorcycles 1959 models

You are making me wish I still had my 1947 Indian Chief motorcycle that I fixed up and rode when I was in junior high.

nice!! what color was it?

It was powder blue. I still remember one time when my dads car needed to go to the shop he asked if he could get this borrow one of my cars. I had 2 or 3 of them at the time. So I let him use the Alfa. Took me a couple weeks to get my keys back from him. Seems one day some kid pulled up next to him at a red light and was reving his engine trying to look bad and when the light turned green my dad smoked the poor kid and left him eating smoke from the exhaust. Next light the kid just sort of ducked down in his car

I don't have any thing as old as that Indian but my son has a 1976 Honda 550-4 and I have a 1976 Honda 360

To geok; know what you mean wish i had mine back 1942 Indian Chief would run like a stripped a$*! ape, just one of several
Ken