I know a fella heavily involved in the tractor restoration business. Based on his previous comments, any thing that involves a high degree of shaping/molding will require a production run into the thousands to be profitable. He also indicated getting something like a JD 10 series fender tool box would take well over a hundred hours (he never gave an exact time) to produce the tooling to produce a high quality copy. There are potentially licensing issues with the OEM that may have to be dealt with. I bring this up to point out some of the hurtles that come up. I don't know if these have come up before but I have known people that have worked in similar industries as yours and have found general manufacturing a different game. I would say Ford N series, hundred series are probably being exploited pretty well. IH and Deere tractors made from the early 60's into the 1980's offer possibilities on units that had production runs into the tens of thousands each model.
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Today's Featured Article - On the Road with Dave Gohl: Auction Musings - by Dave Gohl. I was thinking the other day about all the auctions I've been to in the last few years. There've been many. Some have been very good, some have been well, disappointing to say the least. But no matter how good or bad auctions may be, we always seem to stay until the item we've come for or are interested in is on the block. I've been to some auctions near and far. I think the furthest has been the Two Cylinder 7 in the Amana Colonies last year. Lots of stuff, lots of people. I've also atten
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