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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 […]

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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]