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Leo, the tractors that were listed as "restored" had very nice paint jobs on them. The sheetmetal was about as good as you could get-like a new car. A lot of the tractors had new tires. It seems that the Aumann staff spent a lot of time getting tractors that did not run to run and replacing tires. If you've noticed in their pictures for the auction, you can see some of the early pictures differ from the later pictures they posted, evident on the Cockshutt 60 and Standard 77 diesel with fender extenders. I would say overall conditions of the tractors were the restored ones ran good and the originals were like most tractors you find that are 50 years old and not much done to them-they ran but might have an occasional miss or sputter. Duane, the Fleetline 66 diesel, which was painted up, brought $3250. The Super 66 diesel NF, painted, brought $4700. We looked at the 660 diesel close, and it had to be put together using different tractors. It had band brakes and the small brake levers, which a 660 should not, should have disc brakes. And it did not have a diesel fuel tank, it had a gas tank. I don't know what was done to it, but it wasn't right. Any suggestions? There were some tractors that went for more than they should have in my opinion. Then there were some that were really reasonable, I would say these would be all of the MFWD models. The Super 55 diesel with the loader was pretty beat up, the frame was broken in the front at one time and the sway bars that connect to the front axle were welded up, they must have broken also. You would not believe how many plows they had there. I bet there were around 30 John Deere/Oliver plows. Most of them were trailer plows. They had 15 boat motors also, all Oliver of different horsepowers. I bought 2 skids of pipe mount cultivators for Olivers (possibly 2 sets or for sure 1 complete set, didn't have time to look them over yet) for $10, an Oliver 2 bottom clutch lift plow for $10, a 77 parts tractor near complete, missing the carburetor-for $225, and my brother bought the Oliver 66 single front for $2000. We came home with a full trailer. Jeff
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