North Wales-based trucker and mechanic Peter Owen has come to realise that an awful lot of vintage tractors simply don’t run properly. “So many collectable tractors just get driven onto a trailer, taken off the trailer at a show, and, at the most,” he says, “they chug around the ring, and while they might run, they run often badly.”
There is a fashion these days for preserving tractors in unrestored condition, so much so that it is often rather frowned upon when someone repaints an old tractor. Some people think that cosmetically “doing up” an old tractor is sacrilege, believing that old vehicles should show their years and that a great deal of history lies in the worn paintwork and the dents.
However, this tendency to leave things alone can go…
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Farm Collector (Digital) - 1 Issue, September 2022