This is awesome guys , I'm so looking forward to seeing the end result & I'm delighted with this restoration thread , I never though it would get to have a dedicated thread on its revival .
I am sooooo exited to see this happening & that my little baby is in good hands , I have plenty more projects waiting for your expertise Ian . I have contacted Michael Martino to let him know that you guys are now working on his old tractor .
If you want to put a Clinton in it Ewan you will need the 1290 Clinton , you will be very lucky to find one of these , my opinion would be to hang of for the Kohler K90 or K91 , but make sure you don't buy the one with the tapered crank ,
Wow , I'm delighted my little baby is is on the operating table this little tractor used to belong to the Straight from the horses mouth author Michael Martino and if I remember rightly he said it was a He ,
Keep an eye open on US EBay fenders often pop up on there and most people are willing to ship parts , sadly the shipping costs can work out a bit juicy
i was in the same situation as you Ewan , I wanted to have a round hood but they were rarer than hens teeth here in UK so I desided to build my own using the frame from my old commando 8 shown below , I had a hood stand ,fuel tank and other parts shipped over from US but most of the parts you have will already work for what you are trying to do .
sadly I never got round to finishing the round hood and is now in bits in my work shop , Mabe one day I will get round to finishing it.
Junior has gone to visit his baby brother at the hospital and was a little sad to see him on the operating table but he knew he was in safe hands and was delighted to see his younger brother was making a massive recovery and was looking much better and that the colour was beginning to return to his once lifeless body . junior has desided to stay with his baby brother for a short while to have a little surgery done himself .
Yep!. Had sussed all that Neil , I hope you are able to get over the mourning of your reluctant sale. But you also really need to get rid of one of your good ones,
.........so you are able to lavish more attention on the remaining Herd
Richard , it was prized from my fingers & I'm still in mourning & my flag is still flying at half mast .
The Rj 35 was never sold in UK and as far as I know Chris Sutton & myself are the only owners of the 35 & both were imported from US , there are very few Rj58/59 in UK I only know of a handful of these that still survive , Suburbans are also rare here in UK and not many were sold .
Chris , I wish I had kept it , letting go of it was like pulling all my teeth out with pliers & no anasthetic & then poking a red hot poker into the tooth socket .
, I hope you are able to get over the mourning of your reluctant sale. But you also really need to get rid of one of your good ones
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RJ plowing the garden
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Very nice RJ , very rare here in UK , it's great to see the little guys working