nice restored 77

gary66

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somebody here have this up for sale? looks like the restoration work of people here, nice! (I don't know anything about this, just saw it and thought of here.)

https://toledo.craigslist.org/grd/d/martin-oliver-tractor-model-77/7572883450.html
 
I just saw that one a few minutes ago when I was perusing CL myself. It looks OK, but I guess I'm getting to be too much of a correct cop and I don't want to be that way. I know somebody worked hard on it and I can appreciate that, but they didn't research the correct decals and cheaped out with an alternator. Nice paint though, but I'll pass at that price on something that needs so much redone.
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They look right to me. Take a look at the oil dripping on the drawbar and the flex hose between the air cleaner and carb. Not a six thousand dollar tractor in mt book.
 
yes, that right. saw that and the serial number tag just screwed back on not even cleaned up. the grill screen is missing. i also say that alternator spoils it and has a water tap as a drain. i hate repainted stuff, cause it always looks worst than a nice original.
 
Ya, phillips head screws holding the shift plate on instead of flat head. Like I said, I hate to turn in to somebody who picks things apart to that extent, but don't ask restored prices for something that incorrect and leaky.
 
(quoted from post at 18:46:33 12/30/22) They look right to me. Take a look at the oil dripping on the drawbar and the flex hose between the air cleaner and carb. Not a six thousand dollar tractor in mt book.

Was the original part between the air cleaner and carburetor a metal tube? Can you buy that someplace today? I ve never seen it in any of the restoration parts catalogs.
 
I believe it is supposed to be a molded rubber hose not the universal one that is on there. I find it funny how people put stock in a couple
little things that are not quite original. I dont see too much that bothers me on this tractor as all easy to remedy if you really wanted to.
As far as the price goes if you did all the work to get that good of a paint job you would think it was worth this much. Person selling is
probably just trying to get out of it what he has in it, but probably never will. I can testify that you can easily sink 10k into an old tractor restoration.
When you really think about it The cheap tractors you buy usually end up costing you more than the expensive ones in the end. If someone out there has figured out how to get your money out of a restoration please let me know how. I decided a while back that the only old tractors worth restoring would be something with family sentimental value, or something rare.
 
It was a curved steel tube with a short piece of hose on each end. Like I said, I don't want to pick something apart and wouldn't if it wasn't so high priced. You don't have to tell me what it costs when you get in to these things. There are times when you don't have a choice but to substitute. I'm working on my third David Brown built Oliver right now. It took some time and patience to track down just one rubber plug in Canada. Unless a good pair of fenders falls in my lap, I'm opening myself up to criticism with the pair that I've paid to have modified for the one I'm working on now. I'm under no delusions that I'll ever get my money back on this one.

I'm learning more on every one of them just where to source parts for them. That's the big thing right there. If the one in the ad wasn't done by a long time Oliver guy, he wouldn't know where to source the little detail stuff that the rest of us just take for granted and most likely would and did, just substitute ''close enough''. I did the same thing on my first 500 and likely would if I tried restoring a red, blue, gold or orange tractor.
 
Putting aside previous responses to this post for the moment, what is the highest sales price anyone has ever seen on a 77 with a complete restoration done? (Just curious. I don t own one like that.)
 
I honestly can't say that I've ever seen one sell. I guess Aumann or whatever that one is on TV would have sold it if such a beast
had sold. There was one sitting in front of a diesel shop here for a few years. I never went and looked at it to see how accurate
it was. Seems like somebody said they had $7500 on it. I don't know if they finally found a sucker, put it back in the barn or sent
it off to an auction.
 

I can't recall ever seeing one for more than $7k-ish, maybe a shade more for a Super?

For reference, Dumont's 77 diesel sold for $6300, and that restoration is probably one of the best.
 

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