Back in the days when America's was America's and Love thy Neighbor as thy Self. Plus most people Feared and Repected the most High God and his Son Jesus. PS 3 Great Tractor Builders, they all bought something to the table. Pretty Red Tractors. Thanks
So whenever i see an original paint 97, the paint is always yellow underneath. Why is that? Were they all painied yellow then shipped to massey to be painted? Or is it just a weird coincedence?
Agreed on the 990 part. When I researched the 98, I could never find any evidence for the factory fire that is always told about. Which location and when was this fire?
@@ThatOliverGuyChris Hi Chris, I always heard that Massey needed time to develop a big tractor after their merger with Ferguson, so they went to Oliver and Minneapolis Moline to help them fill in the gap until they could get the Massey 1100 and 1130 developed.
That's all I could find. They wanted in the big tractor market, and that was the fastest way. Seems like a factory fire of that scale would make the newspapers of the day.
In reality, Massey is not “ still standing.” The original Massey Company went down in 1982. Perkins Engine was taken over by Caterpillar.. Massey is now a subsidiary . Fergieman
@@keithlucas6260 most of the Moline I remember were like farmalls, etc.. they weren't big yet, like you see now. My first tractor experience up close was a Johnny Pop! The first tractor I got to drive was a 8N.
@@jamesdiehl8690 my grandparents lived in Minnesota and my aunts and uncles lived in both Illinois and Indiana, so we saw a lot of "Prairie Gold, Farmall red and JD green." I've also have a 51 Case VAC-14 which is my favorite and an old International Harvester backhoe. I also had a Massey Ferguson model 30 industrial that I got rid of. Oddly enough the two big MM's I got from Texas and the 335 came from Arizona.
@@keithlucas6260 my dad grew up on farms in Arkansas. He used two Belgian draft horses for farming and the family didn't have a tractor until he got in high school in Shawnee KS. His dad bought a Farmall Cub.
@@jamesdiehl8690 I can relate to that seeing all the tack required and the old implements to hook up to a draft team in my uncle's barn. I can also say my grandmother's sister actually went to California by covered wagon.
the massey came from the 990 or at least the console came from it,, the 990 and the super 99 are the same with different sheet metas so yes the massey 98 came from oth of these
the gm had a cam at the top of the block - so a drive out the rear was easy , look on some v8 motors that also run air pumps or alternators in trucks and buses at the rear of the motor ,
