Ed,the top picture is the $1000 UDLX you found for me at
Kingman,KS.These 3 tractors plus a KTA Twin City were
purchased by me for a total of $7,000 in the early-mid
1980's.Today it would take over 125K to buy them in the
same condition.
The 1970's to the mid 80's were fun times in
collecting.Everyone helped each other.It was mostly just
farmers that collected.Very few tractors were beyond my
reach back then.I'd love to have all of my 125 old tractors
back but someone else is enjoying them now.Do you still
have the Rumely 6 and W-40 McCormick?
Just a little story here.In 1975 I and a friend found a MM
with a cab at the Lyons,KS airport.It could be bought for
$300....We werent sure what it was so thought that we had
better go home and do some research...We found out that
it was a rare UDLX so we were going to buy it...When we
were back out that way a few weeks later we found out a
local collector had decided to buy it when he found out
that we had looked at it.
In 1978 I watched a friend buy a running 30-60 Aultman
Taylor for $5,500.In that time peroid another collector we
knew was agonizing over buying a real early 30-60 E Oil
Pull for $10,000.I can tell story after story like that.