That's an interesting story, actually. This happened probably around the year that I was born (1986). My grandpa bought the tractor in the early 70's, and somewhere in its' life, the original radiator must have started leaking. He decided that the easiest fix would be to grab a car radiator out of a local junk yard and replace it with that.
In the process, he had to cut up the radiator side panels to clear the inlet/outlet hoses. He then mounted the radiator on top of a couple blocks of wood, and cut the top shroud away from the grill. Bent the grille out so that it would fit the width of the new radiator, and held it all in place with a few nails in the wood blocks, and a couple of bent up wire clothes hangers.
That is how I grew up with the tractor looking, until one day, (several years after his death in 1993) I was walking around the woods, and stumbled across this piece of metal laying upside down in the weeds. I picked it up and low and behold it was the top shroud for the grille. So, I shoved it on top of the radiator and that is what you see.
I guess it kind of started the entire process in restoring it - even though I already had a love for tractors. All of my relatives, including my parents, told me that the tractor was just "wore out". Basically that it was a lost cause. Well. Look at it shine now! I've enclosed a couple more pictures. Sorry for the quality, as they are pictures of pictures.
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