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Re: 2023.06.25 Tractor Pic


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Posted by warbaby on June 25, 2023 at 05:54:48 from (24.247.205.221):

In Reply to: Re: 2023.06.25 Tractor Pic posted by grandpa Love on June 25, 2023 at 04:29:06:

Those IHC dudes can tell a genuine cub ''Demonstrator'' by the serial number range and the ''L'' codes on the large castings- or so they say...
I have one that I inherited from the widow of the guy who bought it new and it was never repainted red after the sales promotion was over, so theres no question its the real deal.

As far as an increased value, I'd say not much. Sure, its interesting, and its a specific tractor that can be tied to a specific sales gimmick in a specific year, but if somebody offered to trade me a pre-1964 Cub Loboy in the same condition (but with a ''Fast Hitch''), I'd feel like I had gotten the better end of the deal.

Many years ago I was at a tractor show and a fella there had both an ''A'' and ''C'' Demo. I stopped and talked to him about his tractors and he told me all about how rare and valuable they were, probably two of only a handful to survive, and how IHC/Case and Jay Leno both wanted to buy them from him for slightly less than what Elon Musk had paid for Twitter (which was strange, because I dont think either one of them existed yet!) After he told me all that, I casually mentioned to him that I had an all original white Cub, the very tractor he needed to complete his Holy Trinity. He immediately wanted to come see it, but I told him I would just bring it to the show the next day. When I pulled in the next morning, he was there with a few buddies to eagerly check it out. I was all ready to sell it to him at 1/2 the price he claimed his ''A'' was worth and giddy at the prospect of retiring early to the Caymans!

Those guys jumped up on the trailer before I could even stop and unstrapped it and poured over that cub, pointing out various minute details while taking a whole roll of pictures with an actual camera (it was the 1980's). Imagine my surprise and disappointment when he finally told me (after huddling with his buds) that my cub was pretty much a pile of s--t and he would do me a favour by trading me a non-running, square-faced cub and 200.oo for it!

I had worked for the lady that owned that Cub for 30+ years and when she died (at 99 years old!) all she left me was a 200.oo pile of crap? I'm sure I spent more than that over those years for the gas to run her weed-whipper! Talk about a harsh reality check. I thanked them, but decided to keep it, and I'll be danged if that cub didnt keep INCREASING in value as the day progressed! Every few hours one of those guys would stop by and make me a slightly larger offer, or a trade of some kind (who knew a J.C. Higgins .410 and a Mall chainsaw could be so valuable??) At load-out, one of those guys offered me 2000.oo for it and gave me his card, but by then I wasnt in a selling mood. If he woulda led with that offer, he'd probably be driving it in parades to this day.

I was just glad I didnt go through all the trouble and effort to clean out and load up my IHC freezer and bring it along to also be similarly besmirched.

You see, it was painted white at the factory too...


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