Back in 1972 when I was still in school I worked for a farmer and we put a 396 Chevy motor in a 44 Massey Harris tractor and took it to some tractor pulls.It did alright but dropped a valve on the last one.Had a lot of racing fuel in the tank and the old 396 had been rode hard and put away wet when it went in the tractor.Smoked blue black oil smoke.Seems like there was coupling issues with that rig too like cutting the center out of a clutch,turning a truck transmission backwards and welding up a bunch of way dangerous stuff just to make the connection.One of the crew owned a welding shop and when we had a problem he would come look at it,go back to his shop and make what we needed,then the next day bring it back and we would put it together.Some kind of wide combine tires,maybe off of a Massey Ferguson combine bolted right up on it.It was way fast like about 60 MPH and would pull the front wheels off the ground just by yanking the throttle on the 4 barrel.Upside down fenderwell headers with truck stacks bolted to them straight up.Looked and sounded evil.Seems like we started on it on a Tuesday and pulled with it on Saturday and that wasnt the only tractor we had to work on,or all we had to do,like build fence,haul hay,feed or something along with it,besides work on the other tractor which was a souped up 6 cylinder Continental motor Massey Harris of some kind,dont remember what size,but we made a manifold,put a 4 barrel on it,had the head off for some reason,and painted it.Started on it a week or 2 before dragging the other one out of the barn to the shop.All we had was a torch,Forney welder,and one of those big hacksaws with a motor on it,and a bunch of scrap iron and some junk trucks.Quite a bit of Budweiser.When we went to the tractor pull we didnt even have anything that stuck out in the crowd much.I remember one of the tractors was an old Farmall F-20 with a 426 Hemi out of the junk yard in it.One of them was a big I beam with 2 motors hooked together,I think Hemis on it,Wide tires of some sort and a front axle like on a street rod with tractor tires on it with elevator wheels that have the pipe spokes.
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