Jim Allen

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 […]

Flying Diesels Whether you’ve seen them in person or not, you know there are diesel in ships and boats, road vehicles of all types, off […]

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 […]

Fairbanks-Morse is a storied name in the world of diesels, and it has celebrated over 100 years building diesels. The company goes back to 1832, […]

When International Harvester debuted its new Raymond Loewy-designed Letter Series tractors in 1939, it was one of their bigger advancements. The improvements came on just […]

Special thanks to Lyle Cummins, Mike Murphy and Randy Watts In past Vintage Smoke we’ve talked about the vaporizing fuel oil engines of the 1895-1930 […]

Most farms have a utility tractor around. It usually mounts a hydraulic loader but may also be used with other powered implements. The utility will […]

When John Deere debuted what the company called the “Next Generation of Tractors” in 1960, the transition from the long-stroke, two-cylinder tractors were dramatic in […]

Special thanks to Brian Gonyea The last years of corporate independence for Minneapolis-Moline were not filled with a stagnant model line. Despite financial upheaval, and […]

R.H. Sheppard Company, of Hannover, Pennsylvania, began manufacturing diesel engines in 1937, carving out a small chunk of the diesel engine market. As with many […]

Even on a stock engine, cracks in a cast exhaust manifold are not unusual. Cast manifolds tend to get brittle and even shrink and expand […]

1951 Caterpillar D364 Diesel Electric Set In the ‘30s, Caterpillar entered the diesel electric generator market. Cat assembled the units in house, sourcing the generator […]

There comes a time in every modified common rail diesel’s life when the stock high-pressure pump can’t keep up with the fuel pressure needed from […]

Looking back into history, all tractor manufacturers had big hoopla introductions. J.I. Case was no exception and one of their biggest was, “Intro 70,” the […]

At the dawn of the 1960s, most of the smaller independent American auto and truck manufacturers had faded away under the searing light of “The […]

1962 FORD 2000 The early 1960s brought a lot of changes to the worldwide Ford ag equipment manufacturing empire. Ford announced a new organization, Ford […]

For much of its history in agriculture and commercial truck manufacturing, International Harvester had diesel options. The first was a gas-start diesel developed for tractors […]

1983-87 International/Ford 6.9L IDI -Dedicated to the late Terry Hankins, IH/Navistar Engineer Public and governmental outcry after the oil shortages of the early ‘70s forced […]

R.H. Sheppard was a well-established diesel engine manufacturer when the single cylinder 2 KW Model 14 generator featured here was built. At that time, Sheppard […]

The turbo diesel is so commonplace today that naturally aspirated diesels stand out. Go back nearly 60 years, the opposite was true. In 1961, turbocharging […]