vintage

[EquipmentJunkie]

I have a sliding scale of vintage, depending on the product:

Lawn & Garden Equipment - Mid-'80's and prior = Vintage. (I always say that the 1970's were a low point for many cultural items: cars, fashion, advertising, music...but it was the Golden Age of Lawn & Garden Equipment!) All you bell-bottom loving, Skynyrd, Bread, and Carpenter fans go easy on me! Post-mid '80's there was a lot of cost-cutting in lawn & garden design.

Compact Tractors - Early 90's and prior = Vintage. Ditto the cost-cutting design, plus more electronics.

Utility Tractors - About 1990 & prior = Vintage. Many utility tractors were based on updated 1960's designs to this point. Example: Compare specs of a Deere 2355 vs. a Deere 5400

Row Crop Tractors - Late '80's & prior = Vintage. Electronics began to replace mechanical items.

Cars & Pickups -
European cars: Early '80's = Vintage
Domestic cars: Mid '80's = Vintage
Pickups: Late '80's = Vintage

 

[1savoy]

Great post. I think this depends on the persons age along with the tractors. To me everything from the 70's seems pretty new. The product design also seems to play into this. My '49 Farmall H was definately Vintage to me, and my '62 Ford 400 was borderline. It was from a vintage design , but had updates to keep it competitive with the times, like power steering, live pto (2 stage clutch), 5 spd, and the like. My 1974 JD 301A seems modern to me with one finger power steering(even with a full load in the bucket), power reverser, awesome brakes, diff lock, deluxe suspension seat with feature to flip up to stand, all the lights, foot throttle, and load/ depth/ load and depth 3-point hitch settings, and then I remember it is 30 plus years old. Maybe another 20 years and I will consider it vintage. As someone else mentioned my father's idea of vintage is much different than mine, with 25 years more of tractoring.

 

[zjohnson]

Anything that was new when I just began to want to drive tractors /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif i.e. early 70's

 

[Farmwithjunk]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Anything that was new when I just began to want to drive tractors /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif i.e. early 70's )</font>


BINGO!


(Next question, when do WE become vintage?)

 

[sweettractors]

<font color="blue"> (Next question, when do WE become vintage?) </font>

When we start having Grandchildren /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif--Ken Sweet

 

[g_t_puller]

In 1953 Grandpa bought a new Farmall "M". That is where modernization stopped for him. A vintage tractor to him was a team of horses! We lost Grandpa a couple years ago at age 93. Vintage or not I still have lots of good memories of him. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif