Re: 'American Farm Tractors of the 60's, a poor quality book', revisited

Posted by JD70Jim on January 13, 2003 at 06:50:24 from (12.215.68.81):

In Reply to: 'American Farm Tractors of the 60's, a poor quality book', revisited posted by Dsl on January 12, 2003 at 12:57:58:

Well, this is, after all, a MOTORBOOKS publication. None of their books are ever really ACCURATE about much of anything,

The comments about the tractors: I feel that a picture, published in a book purporting to be a "real" historical reference, something you can use to check for "historical accuracy" should in fact have pictures that are correct.

Beautiful CUSTOMIZED tractor pictures should not be used if they are to be passed off as "ORIGINAL".

You see it all of the time, I have a nice, commercially available framed poster of a late styled JD "B" with a yellow seat on it.

I know better, but when some 17 year old kid, restoring his FFA project sees that picture, is he going to think that a yellow seat was original? Probably. It is the same with that nice "CUSTOM 806 TURBO" in the book.

The "correct police" should stay away from the tractors at shows if they have to comment on the occasional faux-pas directly to the unsuspecting owner. But in this case, the publishers of the book SHOULD have to hear and read the bad reviews of their work.

Someone who wrote a "historical" book purporting how the south won the Civil War wouldn't get any respect either, and in this case---Misters Peterson and Beemer won't get much either! I'd say that these folks OUGHT to do a major revision of their book, now that the opinions are in!

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