This tractor was just bought by the Porsche repair shop in our town on the San Francisco Peninsula! Pretty cool conversation piece. Wonder if we'll see it in our town parades. The Santa Clara Valley used to be a big ag region, but that all slowly faded away starting in the 1960s when big business and big tech got roots and grew. In my 50+ years there, I've seen lots for local farms and orchards bulldozed for buildings, parking lots and freeways.
Will it do 0-60 in under 4 seconds?................
For those Porsche fans who have not seen it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8-9oIq1hxw
Price a new tractor these days and some of the older, rebuilt JD or IH start looking better and better. $22k for this, go see what that same money will buy new, and it isn’t much.
My smallest utility tractor is a 1993 970 MFWD with the Yanmar engine, I turned down and offer for more than I paid new for it this summer.
DIESEL KNOCK!.......................
DIESEL KNOCK!.......................
I always wanted one for no other reason than to be able to tell a date I'd pick them at 7:00, and that I'd be driving a white Mercedes.
Ping!
SOMEONE DID AN OUTSTANDING JOB ON THE RESTORATION.
I NEED TO FIND A RESTORATION SHOP FOR MY OLD IRON...AM I N NEVADA.
Absolutely kewl for a Porsche collector!
As a 928 guy, anything not a 992 these days is a refreshing flashback to times where care, engineering, hand building and quality were top priorities in production.
Too pretty to take out of the barn for sure....We had a red tractor on our farm when I was a kid. It was called a Farmall!!! Had cousins who would argue that their John Deere was a better tractor...all grown up and OLD and still argue about unimportant things!
These old tractors are quaint but watch those seats!
Metal fatigue sets in and before you know it, you are under the tractor and looking at the equipment being pulled and about to get run over!
My advice: take the old seat off and hang it on the wall and get a new seat for your very life!
A friend owns car dealerships. He has an amazing collection of European sports and super cars. He’s got a couple of 1950s Porsches— a couple iterations of the 356 and a tractor that looks just like this one. I will have to look at the identification plate on it. He also has a 50s-60s Lamborghini tractor that is undergoing restoration. Too bad John Deere and IH didn’t try their hands at sports cars as well!
Even though it’s a Porsche, I still wouldn’t recommend robbing a bank with it
But ... but ... where is the air conditioned cab, the GPS computers, the roll bar, ...
;-)
That Porsche tractor is great, but can it match the Lamborghini tractor?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamborghini_Trattori
Now THAT is a thing of beauty!
Beats our 1942 Allis Chalmers tractor on looks, for sure - but ours still runs and is a workhorse, whereas this ‘Princess’ probably isn’t going to see any field work anytime soon! ;)
Buddy of mine restored old British leyland and Austin Healy and triumph cars for $$$$ nashvillians
He also owns very old Porsche and Lamborghini tractors
He used the Porsche frequently
There is something unique how it operates but I can’t remember