Re: Tractor collecting.......Just a fad?

Posted by buickanddeere on January 02, 2005 at 16:52:18 from (64.10.41.114):

In Reply to: Tractor collecting.......Just a fad? posted by Rumely Man on January 02, 2005 at 14:04:48:

It's going to fade just like Model T collection and restoration. Auto collectors are into late 60, 70's and 80's vehicles now.
The 1st generation of collectors are either dead from old age or elderly. These are the fellows who purchased the two cylinder Deere's and the like.
The 2nd and smaller generation of collectors are those with off farm income, in our prime earning years. Collecting the tractor that we drove as kids or what Grandpa had.
The 3rd generation with be a few farm kids but corporate farms are taking over. A few heirs of estates who wound up with Grandpa's old tractor.
Something that is artificially keeping "antique collecting" going but isn't antique collecting. Is those commuting rural dwellers with urban incomes. Who just want a cheap old tractor to shove snow out of the drive way. or to mount a mower/bush hog onto.
I'm purchasing land, not old tractors to pay for my retirement.

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