(quoted from post at 22:03:18 07/16/15)
(quoted from post at 03:54:25 07/16/15) WELL SINCE THEY WERE PRODUCED FOR SUCH A SHORT PERIOD of time you have bought yourself an instant collectors item.
I think that's what a lot of folks thought when they bought these new. 50% depreciation in ~5 years would seem to pop that balloon, though. Their loss, my gain. There have been a few specialty tractors over the years (such as the
Case 1570 "Spirit of '76 Edition"), but they don't seem to bring much of a premium over their standard equivalents.
A friend bought one to use on his Christmas tree farm and I was looking at it. He said look at this and grabbed the rail to get up on it and the fender almost broke off. My 63 year old 8N will be around long after that Boomer is gone .
Well you do realize "they don't make 'em like they used to," right?
Over 524,000 8Ns were sold, and parts availability remains pretty good (albeit with typical "Land of Almost Right" issues). Non-metallics are used in a lot of places on modern tractors where heavy-gauge sheet metal used to be used (the Boomer 8N fenders are plastic, of course). I don't know how many b8Ns were produced, but it can't have been that many. Supposedly, it's based on the Boomer 3050, but given that manufacturers now only want to support for 10-15 years after end of production, I suspect the lifespan for any of these is probably no more than 2-3 decades, if that.
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