VINTAGE PICS

[TDF5G 2,069]

Found some old pics of my dad's tractors.   Thought I would share a few.  I think this one is possiblly a 704 or 854.  He seems to remember owning a '64 model of some kind.  Dad sold new Chevrolets and Buicks at the local dealer. That's a new '65 Impala in the drive and my mom's '62 Nova in the garage.  This pic would be 1964-65.

 

Oh, and that's me in the dump cart.  

 

 

 

 

Edited February 19, 2016 by TDF5G

[danjmah 71]

Great pics, thx for sharing!

[RedRanger 1,468]

If we could only see it in color!  I don't know that I've ever seen that model of WH trailer?

Very cool!  Thanks for sharing.

 

By the way, my parents say they had the same car seat for me back in the day.  

[Tankman 3,518]

Great picture! Thanks for sharing.

 

This is the oldest picture I found in my pile. Son drivin' one of our first Stallions. Rod likes Horses too!

 

Edited February 19, 2016 by Tankman

[TDF5G 2,069]

Rod Stewart is your son?    I'm just kidding.  

 

My dad still has the dump cart.  I think it's the same era, early sixties. 

 

Here is the 552.  I think this was the first  my dad bought.   He discovered WH tractors when his boss, the Chevy dealer owner bought one.   From his description I think it was an RJ from late 50s.  It had a pull start.  Dad went to the local  dealer and bought one with a starter.  The boss man was jealous so he went and traded tractors!

 

Oh, that kid is me again.     I was born in July of '63.  So these pics would be probably within a year of that. 

 

Edited February 19, 2016 by TDF5G

[TDF5G 2,069]

Dad is an antique car enthusiast.  That is a 1932 Chevrolet Cabriolet in the garage.  The old coupe is a 1930 Model A Ford.

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[WHX?? 49,101]

Cool pics, thanks for sharing.  Dad had good taste in cars AND tractors....hope some of it rubbed off on ya!!

[TDF5G 2,069]

Here is the 856.   The teenager is my uncle, my mother's brother, 12 years older than me.

 

I apologize for the sporadic posting here.  I'm doing this at work in between customers and phone calls.

 

I'll let you guess who the little kid is.  

Can't date this exactly.  The tractor looks about new in the color photo.  I'd say its summer of '66.  Dad did keep 'em clean though and still does.  I do remember this day though, I'm actually getting to drive it!  Probably the first  I got to drive.  The B&W pics are probably 1967,  I look  a little bigger, and Dad traded for a Commando 8 in 1968.

Edited February 19, 2016 by TDF5G

[RedRanger 1,468]

9 minutes ago, TDF5G said:

Here is the 856.   The teenager is my uncle, my mother's brother, 12 years older than me.

 

I apologize for the sporadic posting here.  I'm doing this at work in between customers and phone calls.

 

I'll let you guess who the little kid is.  

Can't date this exactly.  The tractor looks about new.  Dad did keep 'em clean though and still does.  I do remember this day though, I certainly remember getting to drive it!  Probably the first  I got to drive.

 

 

Looks like your dad upgraded to a newer deck some time between these two photos.

 

Nice photos.  Based on all the posing, your dad really appreciated his Horses.

[Ed Kennell 38,579]

Really great pics.     I'm guessing this last one is 1965.   You look like a.......  " terrible two".....

[TDF5G 2,069]

30 minutes ago, RedRanger said:

Looks like your dad upgraded to a newer deck some time between these two photos.

 

Nice photos.  Based on all the posing, your dad really appreciated his Horses.

Yes, that's possible.   Or the color photo may be a different tractor, maybe a 1965, if his leg was just not in the way!   Some keen eyed enthusiasts here will tell us.    Dad traded tractors every few years through the sixties and seventies up until he retired, and he always put light kits on them.  He became friend's with the local WH dealer and he bought vehicles from Dad every few years also.

 

He took pride in all his vehicles including the WHs.  I remember getting yelled at;  "don't scratch it, or get my feet off the seat, quit fooling with those knobs, leave that alone," etc.   The dealer always like getting his trade-ins.  They would sell quickly he said. 

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[elcamino/wheelhorse 9,343]

They are some great pictures , thanks for sharing.

[TDF5G 2,069]

1985 314-8 that Dad used to have then sold to my uncle, the teenager in the pics above as a matter of fact, then he bought the 1996 314-8 and still has it today.  That's my little brother on it.  

[Phatboy 565]

Wow bud thats awesome ,, thanks for sharing those , i like looking at old pics of back in the good old days where times were simplar ,and ppl were kinder to each other,, and Tractors were extra sexy back then !!

[russellmc301 600]

well i have some pic of me on the raider 10 when i was a toddler

 

but that wasn't that long ago  

[TDF5G 2,069]

My first .  1968 Commando 8.  Pics are from 1993.  

 

 I told this story on another thread a while back but I'll share it here briefly.  I just found these old pics recently. My dad bought this tractor new, traded it in on a new 1973 12 HP, local guy named Johnny bought it from WH dealer, sold it to my uncle, and I bought it in '93 from him.   I overhauled it with help from local WH dealer who was my neighbor at the time.   The mower deck was pretty well shot, parts to rebuild were expensive  and I needed it to mow, pushed snow with it that winter, sold it to another neighbor, and bought a good used '77 B-80.

 

I didn't know at the time it was my Dad's old tractor, just discovered this last summer.  I asked the neighbor (who is also my boss now) if he still had it.  He said he sold it about 20 years ago, doesn't remember who to either.    I'd a kept it if I had known it was Dad's old .    

 

The last photo with the deck on was exposed wrong or something.  I took these with an old 35MM camera.   I've got more pics of the tractor in pieces if y'all wanna see them.  Just don't want to over do it here.  And thanks for the compliments. 

Todd

 

PS: yeah that's me again!

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[AMC RULES 37,134]

Yes please...keep posting more 

[RedRanger 1,468]

Nothing wrong with old pictures and family stories.  

[TDF5G 2,069]

Ok you asked for it.  I don't remember doing all this very well.  I did end up having to replace the carb I remember.  It ran sweet after.  I remember cleaning lots of gunk and sludge off of it. 

[JERSEYHAWG / Glenn 4,497]

Totally the greatest pictures, BIG THANK YOU for sharing them.

 

Glenn

[neil 2,410]

Here's a few that I found on my surfing travels 

[RedRanger 1,468]

4 minutes ago, neil said:

 

Great Photo!  Now days some body would lose their kid for that.  

 

Notice the brake pedal.  Early owners like to modify their rides too.

[neil 2,410]

Here are a few more  I uncovered

[953 nut 55,702]

6 hours ago, TDF5G said:

Oh, and that's me in the dump cart.

First, let me say this is a very cool , thanks for sharing all of those photos.

The dump cart is a LTD-24 and was made from 1958 to 1961. I have one and it is great with the Suburban but not so much with the later .  The tongue on these trailers was made to fit into the smaller sleeve hitch on the RJs and Suburbans and had pivot points built into it, a real piece of work! Take a look at the manual.

 

[TDF5G 2,069]

Yeah it has a funky swivel thing on the tongue that only works on a sleeve hitch.  I remember busting it once when a buddy and me were using it to haul firewood out of the hollers on his grandpas place.  Had to get it welded.  I found some WH paint and touched up the weld.  It was a couple of years before Dad noticed it.