My Dad passed away Thanksgiving morning at 85 and he was buried yesterday. When I was in the 5th grade we moved from the suburbs to the "country" in western Hanover County, Virginia. Soon after my dad decided we needed a tractor. He found one, a VAC sitting in a junk yard in Ladysmith. Don't know how long that tractor had been sitting, someone had a home made wood splitter built into it. Went up there with a battery, 5 gallons of gas, and starting fluid. Tractor fired right up and we drove it home. Later he found another VAC with an Eagle Hitch, putting the two together, and fabricating those parts that were missing. Did everything with that tractor, even pulled a PTO baler with it to pay part of my college tuition. That VAC my dad found in a junk yard is what started my love of Case tractors. The tractor is still running to this day.