IB Low Rider and baby D21

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I thought some of you might be interested in this. Bob VanderPloeg's wife (they have warehouses full of restored ACs, really a great restorer and AC resource) sent me this photo tonight. It was a tractor that caught my attention last visit to his place. These are just three machines where Bob used his imagination on restoring machines he already has other copies of. This is his low rider IB (completely flipped finals and flipped B arch axle) which I believe he made from a B, a baby D21 he built out of an AC 5015 (so it has a diesel engine) and another that I don't recall what it was, a scaled 100 or 200 series.

I'm going to take a trip up there soon and film his whole collection.


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I misspoke, I actually have no idea, and in fact, though I deleted that line. Just saw the B axle and it appears B seat back, but yes, mostly IB components so the basis is probably an IB. I didn't look at the serial number because I was focused more in the fenders at the time i saw it in person, I have to find replacements for mine and was wondering what he started with.

I just thought it was a really nice job, and gave me the feeling of a beefy lawn tractor.
 
You didn't misspeak at all and correctly called it what it is in your first post. It is one of many "low riders" that have been built from regular Bs by flipping the final drives and front axles upside down. He added the IB looking frame work and some IB decals. A factory IB is a LOT different in many ways.
 
It has an IB channel frame
It has IB rear fenders
It has an IB torque tube
It has IB front axle support bars
It has IB steering wheel / shaft

My guess is he started with an IB, flipped the rears completely upside down, and then added the inverted B front axle......... too many IB parts to have been a "B" originally.
 

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