Eastern VA. No such thing as too many Magnums. | When I was a little boy, we had this old Ford tractor that was mostly red and grey, except the transmission was blue. I think it was a 501? or maybe an 801? Anyway I asked dad why the transmission was blue. He said because the original transmission was junked soon after they got the tractor. About 20 years later, a couple of us were loading junk equipment on a lowboy with an excavator. This strange item came up out of the weeds with a long cable that had hooked on the excavator tooth. It was a Select-O-Speed control lever. It was perfect condition. No rust at ALL after sitting in the woods for who knows how long. If Ford had engineered the transmission as well as the chrome-job on the handle. It would have been successful for sure! I think they still have the handle in my uncle's shop in Maryland. |
Harold L Brock - Tractor Engineer for Ford & John Deere
