What is my lawn tractor worth?

[reciccone]

I am moving and need to sell my Cub Cadet 1170. Purchased it in 2002 for $1900. It has 180 hours. What is it worth? I have no idea. It is in pretty good shape but has some scratches etc as you would expect.

Also what and where is the best place to advertise for selling. I live in Cincinnati Ohio and I don;t want the hassle of shipping it.

thanks for the advice

rick

 

[MossRoad]

Offer it for sale with the house. Won't the new owner need it?

 

[5030]

Hi Mossy. Long time no say hi.

I see South Bend is still on the map despite the loss of South Bend Lathe Company and Studebaker.

If his Cadet is a MTD mower (I believe it is), might as well throw it in with the house. MTD (More Tools Desired) products (with the exception of Cub Cadet Commercial mowers) has the resale value of a not so gently used Yugo.

We are still over here fiddling with hay, feeding the Percheron Lawn Ornaments and now retired but back in College. What a life.

 

[MossRoad]

South Bend Lathe is still alive!

 South Bend Lathes and Machine Tools

The Studebaker buildings are finally being torn down 40 years after the factory closed. Rust belt central. There is the world's largest Studebaker parts dealer in South Bend.

Studebaker Autoparts Sales Corporation

And they just tore down the Oliver Tractor plant a couple years ago. They did, however, leave and restore the main Oliver power plant building, complete with smoke stack. A brick company uses it as their offices and showroom.

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Other than that, South Bend is an armpit! We don't even have any of the big 3 tractor dealers in the city anymore. You have to go out to more rural communities for that.

 

[teg]

Try selling it here: it's under Farm & Garden

cincinnati, OH farm/garden for sale classifieds - craigslist

Sorry, no idea what it is worth...

 

[Bird]

That's a real shame, David, that those places went under. As far as I'm concerned, Studebaker was one of the best cars built in its day, and the Olivers were fine tractors.

 

[MossRoad]

That's a real shame, David, that those places went under. As far as I'm concerned, Studebaker was one of the best cars built in its day, and the Olivers were fine tractors.

The brick company did a fine job of keeping the Oliver power plant and smokestack. It still says OLIVER down the side. I'll try to get a picture of it in the next few weeks.

If you ever have the occasion to visit South Bend, there are a few great attractions even though the town, itself, is decaying.

The Studebaker National Museum is a really good museum with many cars on display on three floors.
The Studebaker National Museum
It is connected to the Northern Indiana Center for History which is also a very nice museum. They have a great history of the area from the Native American times up to the present.
Northern Indiana Center for History, South Bend, Indiana
At the Center for History, besides the museum, you can tour the Oliver mansion. The mansion is a huge stone house left to the city by the Oliver family. I believe the last child moved out in the 80's and left EVERYTHING to the city. It is exactly as they left it when they lived here. All the original furniture, woodwork, carpets, drapes, silverware, even spices in the cupboards are there. It is really beautiful and worth seeing.

It is told that Oliver and Studebaker were competing with each other for social status and each tried to out-do the other with their mansions. The Studebaker mansion is just down the street. Apparently, both men were very successful. They came to an agreement... Oliver would not venture into building cars if Studebaker would not venture into building tractors. The agreement held and they were both prosperous for a good long while.

Also of interest is the College Football Hall of Fame, Notre Dame University Campus tours and the South Bend Chocolate Factory. AM General has the Hummer H1 and H2 plants close by, but I don't think they give tours anymore.

And, keeping it tractor related, Wheelhorse tractors were made here for decades until they closed up and moved to Wisconsin a few years ago.

 

[Bird]

We spent a few days in Elkhart in 1990, but only passed through South Bend on the Interstate, but if I'd known about the Studebaker Museum, we'd have gone to see that.

 

[MossRoad]

It was much smaller and in a different location, then. Here's an interesting story...

When my dad was an architect, he was doing some inspecting at a local high school back in the 50s. Behind the stage in the auditorium that was getting remodeled, he found some boxes. Inside were a bunch of rocks, minerals and fossils. My dad was, among other things, an avid fossil hunter and archeologist. The boxes were on their way to the dump due to the construction, so he asked if he could have them. They gave them to him. Inside, he found documentation that they were the collection of Clem Studebaker that he had donated to the high school decades earlier. In the collection were a bronze Egyptian mirror, a giant cephlepod(think rolled up squid) that was a couple feet across, half of a giant clam that was two feet across that we ended up using as a bird bath in our yard (my sister still has it in her yard) and a ton of other neat stuff.

A few years before my dad found out he had terminal cancer, he loaned most of the collection to the Studebaker museum. Parts of it are occasionally on display there, but is usually put away in a store room as it is more of a curiosity than auto related. But it is neat to have people I know come up and say, "Hey! I saw something with your last name on it over at the Studebaker museum." And then I get to tell this story again.

 

[RickO]

I see you put it on Craig's list for $900. I think that is priced to sell quick if it is in good shape. I would have started at $1100 this time of year. But you have it priced right if you want it gone. Don't go much less than that though.