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(Be kind my facts could be foggy I was young. It has been a long day and my brain is soggy.) I was in second grade when Tennaco got rid of all of the Case dealers. My late father and Granddad sold JI case equipment for 40 years before being pushed out. At this time Case quit making and selling combines, and farm equipment. My dad always said the Combine line was sold off and the manufacture was moved to South America? I do not know if this was true or I understood something wrongly. I do know that JD quick attach heads will fit on late model JI Case combines. (there is post on this subject) The cylinders are the same size the JD throat must be used on the case. A Case 600-900 is 40 inches same as JD 55... The late model Case combines had really bad problems with the 3 and 4 row corn heads. Was it Deere that beat them to the punch? Had a better corn head and mistakes of the Case cornhead just did them in the combine line in? Or did the replacement Case cornhead get sold to Deere? I do not know? If you look at Case 600 combine operator manual from say 1963 there will be 1 page about the cornhead. I think Case may have missed the big shift from ear corn to shelled corn by the late 60's? By 70s the Tenneco management just pulled the plug. They just kept what they thought was profitable for the short term. I think this was short sighted. But as farms got bigger there were fewer farmers and few equipment makers. Case had many good ideas. Their backhoe was and is still very good, The Case-0-matic was engineering feat but a marketing failure. I do love the little 124 VAC engines that just grew in the 201 on the Case 600 combine and 630 tractor. The 400-500 diesel engine that grew to the 730-930 is something I love. But were also slow to move. They really fought the 3-point hitch. Yes they had an eagle hitch in the VAC by the late 40's. But Ford was killing everyone on price and with the three point at this time. Notice the advertisements even into the late 50's " Case engine not to confused with engine's with cheaper Auto parts...." That is reference to Ford. Upper management still thought there was no reason to go with the 3 point on the big tractors. When did they put the 3-point on a 930? This sounds like a subject that needs to be studied at the Combine hall of fame that some rich fellow will build and lots students will do work history of the combine. And where the old combines will be saved from the wrecking ball.
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