The Oliver 1900 B: A Game Changer in High-Horsepower Farming The start of the ‘60s was when the passenger car horsepower races got hot and heavy, but not many car guys know the same thing […] Jim Allen September 20, 2024 Diesel Tractors FEATURES
Whispering Giant -1968 Oliver 2150 Four-Wheel 1968 Oliver 2150 Four-Wheel Drive As a tractor brand name, Oliver was just about lost to history when they started building their most powerful rear-drive […] Jim Allen October 03, 2022 Diesel Tractors Vintage Diesels
Tractor Talk: 1957 Oliver Super 77 Hi-Crop: Ollie With A Lift 1957 Oliver Super 77 Hi-Crop: Ollie With A Lift Hi-Crop, High Clearance, High-Clear, HC… whatever name the manufacturer chose for them, tractors with extra clearance […] Jim Allen August 17, 2017 DEPARTMENTS Diesel Engines
Jimmy Screamin’ at Ollie: 1963 Oliver 1900 GM 4x4 The start of the ‘60s was when the passenger car horsepower races got hot and heavy, but not many car guys know the same thing […] Jim Allen May 01, 2017 Diesel Tractors
The Hundred Series: 1958 Oliver 770 Diesel Tractor By the late 1950s, Oliver was still a major player in the tractor market, but more and more, bigger players were overshadowing the manufacturer. Oliver […] Jim Allen April 19, 2016 Diesel Tractors Vintage Diesels
Hi-Crop Tractor: 1957 Oliver Super 77D Hi-Crop, High Clearance, High-Clear, HC… whatever name the manufacturer chose for them, tractors with extra clearance for taller crops have been part of the farming […] Jim Allen March 30, 2016 Diesel Tractors Vintage Diesels
The 600HP Transformation of A 2004 Ford F-250 The story of Ian Gebbia’s ’04 Ford starts off with a broken truck on the side of the road. Fortunately, Ian was able to rescue […] Jason Sands August 06, 2024 Diesel Trucks FEATURES Ford
The Heavy-Duty Power of the 1967 Minneapolis-Moline G1000 Row Crop 1967 Minneapolis-Moline G1000 Row Crop By the mid-1960s, Minneapolis-Moline had a long history of success behind it, but in all that history, they had not […] Jim Allen December 05, 2023 FEATURES
EVOLUTION OF A HEAVYWEIGHT 1961 Minneapolis-Moline GVI At the dawn of the 1960s, Minneapolis-Moline (M-M) had an aging but well-regarded line of heavyweight tractors that had evolved from a […] Jim Allen May 16, 2022 Diesel Tractors
Middie Minnie 1964 Minneapolis Moline 602E The M-Series Minneapolis-Moline tractors debuted in 1960, replacing the 5-Star tractors of the late 1950s in the middleweight tractor role. It […] Jim Allen October 18, 2021 Diesel Engines Vintage Diesels
Tractor Talk Last Scream of the Jimmy In 1954, when Oliver needed a powerful diesel to one-up their competitors, they went to General Motors. The Detroit Diesel […] Jim Allen June 08, 2021 Diesel Tractors Vintage Diesels
Barn Find Gold! 1949 Cletrac ADH Cletrac created a new market segment in 1916 when it introduced the diminutive model R crawler. When Rollin H. White founded Cleveland […] Jim Allen February 09, 2021 Diesel Tractors Vintage Diesels
1965 Cockshutt 1550 Wheatland 1965 Cockshutt 1550 Wheatland Even if we don’t know the term, we’ve all seen badge engineering at work. Take a vehicle platform of one brand […] Jim Allen February 02, 2021 Diesel Tractors Vintage Diesels
SOS Styling, Modern Day Work Ethic A Duramax and Allison-Swapped 4100 Series Chevrolet It was supposed to just be a work truck, but for Phil Prinster—a man that’s made his old […] Mike McGlothlin January 12, 2021 Chevy Diesel Trucks Vintage Diesels
VINTAGE SMOKE OLIVER POWER UNITS Like most Tractor manufacturers, the Oliver Corporation looked for other venues in which to sell diesel engines. One that kept them pretty […] Jim Allen July 02, 2020 Diesel Tractors
Strange Bedfellows The Nissan SD and a 1968 Chrysler New Yorker The 1973 oil embargo scared Uncle Sam right out of his red-and-white striped pants. With a […] Jim Allen May 19, 2020 Diesel Cars Nissan Vintage Diesels
The Big Minnie 1967 Minneapolis-Moline G1000 Row Crop By the mid-1960s, Minneapolis-Moline had a long history of success behind it, but in all that history, they had not […] Jim Allen March 31, 2020 Diesel Tractors
Triple-Nickel 1956 Massey-Harris 555 The ’55 Diesel debuted in 1949 as the big diesel tractor in the Massey-Harris lineup. Despite some teething problems, it established a […] Jim Allen September 11, 2019 Diesel Tractors
Crawling Ollie 1946 Oliver Cletrac BD Crawler Cletrac began in 1916 as the Cleveland Motor Plow Company with a three-wheeled tractor design. Before the patent was even […] Jim Allen May 23, 2019 Diesel Tractors
TRACTOR TALK FOUR EQUALS SIX 1970 MASSEY FERGUSON 1080 In the 1950s, Massey-Ferguson had a line of tractors that were near the top of the quality and performance curve. Massey-Ferguson […] Jim Allen November 29, 2018 Diesel Tractors