Tag: diesel tractor

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 […]

1978 Allis-Chalmers 8550 In the early 1970s, Allis-Chalmers joined the ranks of the manufacturers offering articulated four-wheel drive tractors. They started by rebadging the Bearcat […]

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 […]

The Late-August Classic is Relocated And Rejuvenated At Wagler Motorsports Park When industry giants like Dan Scheid and Jeremy Wagler team up on something, you’re […]

Two Surviving Prototype Scout Diesels The International Scout was diesel before diesel was cool. Diesels were nothing new for International Harvester, in their truck lines […]

1949 Sheppard SD-1 Sheppard Tractors are among the rarest of the orphan tractors. We covered a ‘51 Sheppard SD-3 for you back in 2015 and […]

1975 Ford 7000 All-Purpose As Ford updated it’s tractor lines in preparation for the swinging ‘70s, they realized the Thousand Series lineup was going to […]

Classy & Powerful Diesel Tractors The 1950s was the last decade in which the small crawler was a player in the agricultural tillage industry. To […]

A 1950 Cat D315 Caterpillar was on a roll before World War II and rapidly dominating the crawler market. The war sped that roll up […]

1969 MASSY-FERGUSON 1130 The early 1960s marked the beginning of the large scale application of turbocharging to diesels in the tractor world. Massey-Ferguson’s (MF) first […]

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 […]

1966 CASE COMFORT KING 1032 WESTERN SPECIAL The 1960s had not been good to J.I. Case. Besides the ag market being a little wonky, they […]

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 […]

1965 Farmall 504 What International Harvester called the “New World of Power” launched them into their first line of six-cylinder tractors in 1958. These were […]

1972 FORD 8000 Ford Tractor Operations turned a major corner in 1968 when the new 8000 debuted. It replaced Ford’s First six-cylinder tractors, the 6000 […]

A 1940S CATERPILLAR OIL TEST ENGINE Special thanks to Lee Fosburgh at Cat Historical, Braden Reddall at Chevron, and Jim Rush! It’s easy to forget […]

1989 WHITE AMERICAN 60 By the end of the 1980s, White Farm Equipment was in trouble. The company had begun in 1960, when White Motor […]

When Klockner-Humboldt-Deutz (KHD) took over the ag side of Allis Chalmers in 1985, the only part of the old tractor lineup they wanted to keep […]

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 […]

The 1970 Farmall 826 Gold Demonstrator Upgrade or die was the watchphrase of tractor manufacturing in the 1960s. Farming was evolving rapidly and tractors were […]