Since the original topic is ready to fall off page 1 I decided to start a new post. Anyhow, the 7000 itself was just an updated 200 which still put AC behind its competition. The 7000 series in general here did relatively well when compared to White, MF, and Ford because many of the AC dealers here were highly regarded by their customers. That the relationship started in earlier times carried into the 1970's. Couple that with the occurrence of AC dealers in mostly areas largely comprised of small dairies. That most AC tractors sold did PTO work for the most part versus drawbar work . Not so much in vegetable crop and later grain crop areas unlike JD and IH dealers that seem to have a dealer in every sizable muck area or area of 3 feet deep loam soil. AC dealers did well in general here if they had New Holland as part of the lineup. Some did but quite a few others did not. The ones that did not have good shortlines were among the first of any brand to go under during the 1980's. Some of the strongest IH dealers had NH which created its own set of problems when the mergers happened around the mid-1980's.