Posted by oldtanker on May 22, 2016 at 07:39:06 from (66.228.255.59):
In Reply to: Gold 8n posted by To30man on May 22, 2016 at 07:08:58:
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If you go over on the Ford forum here on YT you can get a much better answer than I can give. Ford and IH both had special painted "demo" tractors, the age of the 881 Fords were gold and Farmall IH were white. Neither company kept track of the serial numbers on the demo tractors IIRC and the were supposed to be repainted by the dealer to the correct colors when they were sold.
It's very common to find a "demo" that wasn't a demo. Can of paint and it's a demo. If you can prove it a demo is worth more money. Someone on the Ford board has the starting and ending serial numbers for the demos but that's the Demo's started "here" and ended "here" but only a few tractors between those numbers were actually "gold demo's" and we don't know which ones.
The tranny would be a "Select-o-Speed" or SOS. Generally the SOS tranny hurts the value rather then helps. There were not that rare but they are difficult to rebuild and parts are very hard to find so are generally undesirable.
Many people trying to sell something like that either are ignorant of what it is and the value or darn well know that it isn't all they claim and are only trying to jack up the price.
Here, as a working tractor with the SOS tranny it would be worth about 3500-4000 dollars. If you can prove that it is indeed a gold demo to a collector it would be worth much more.
Link to the Ford page: [/url]http://forums.yesterdaystractors.com/viewforum.php?f=15 Rick>
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