Posted by IH fan on November 26, 2009 at 16:36:01 from (70.250.251.150):
In Reply to: Gold Plated Farmall H? posted by charles todd on November 25, 2009 at 06:37:22:
Mike CA said: (quoted from post at 23:21:25 11/25/09)
IH fan said: A new tractor is not done that way, why do a restoration that way?
Since I'm doing my H that way, I can tell you my personal reasoning: I want my tractor to have a certain "wow" factor for the crowd. It's going to be a show/parade tractor. So, I want it to make people really see it and appreciate it. Experts like you folks can argue that they never looked like that new. Well, it's not new. It's 65 years old. So, in my opinion it deserves better than new, because I want to get people looking at it, interested in it's history, and I want to keep it interesting for years to come for when my kids get it, and their kids, and so on.
What I am having the problem with more than anything here, is the use of the words restore or restoration, not the fact you or anyone else is re-working one that way. the word "restore", by it's very meaning, is to make it like it was when new. These tractors, cars or whatever that are done this way are a "custom re-build", not restored. This is what the "correct police" should be looking at. I can remember Dad buying 4 different new tractors when I was a kid at home, and I'd bet all of them had flaws of some kind.
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