Tag: Vintage Diesel Tractors

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 […]

The John Deere 2630 The 1970s would bring about one of John Deere’s biggest model line updates, the Generation II tractors. The previous New Generation […]

Classy Tractors With this, we will have covered three of the four Sheppard tractor models built from 1949 to 1956. We covered the SD-3 in […]

A 14-Class Truck and Tractor Pull in the Land of Lincoln Perhaps no other form of motorsport events had been hit as hard as truck […]

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 […]

By the time 1985 rolled around, the agricultural side of Allis-Chalmers was 71 years old and the company was drowning in debt in the face […]

The 1960s were a rough time for J.I. Case, but that didn’t stop the company from introducing what would become one of its best-loved tractor […]

The Cub Cadet line of garden tractors debuted in 1960 as “little brothers” to International Harvester’s compact Farmall Cub series. Originally to be called Cubette—a […]

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 […]

Canada isn’t generally known for her tractors, but one Canadian tractor manufacturer made a mark on the world: Cockshutt. The company started in 1882, when […]

Ferdinand Porsche (1875-1951) had his hands into just about everything with an engine. By the time he started his own engineering firm in 1931, Dr. […]

You’re forgiven if “WD-40” brought something else to mind. Before that incredibly useful product was invented, there was an equally useful product with the same […]

Sometimes big ideas come in smaller packages. Case in point: the 400 Series Case tractors that debuted for 1955. This was the first all-new J.I. […]

David Brown is not a well known name in the United States tractor scene, but our neighbors north of the border are very familiar with […]

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 […]