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Rare Tractor Alert! Check Out The Deutz Allis 9190, Gary Anglin Tracked Down!​

Feb 23, 2026 #classictractor #tractor #classictractorfever
We traveled to Missouri to see this one! Gary Anglin has a prized tractor in this 1988 Deutz Allis 9190. This is one he had a deep connection with since it was a tractor his Dad had. This is the very same tractor Gary had to track down years later!


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Cripes, I'm feeling old. Last time I ran a (farm) tractor, Deutz-Allis hadn't been created yet. (Reorganization/takeover of Allis-Chalmers). That 1988 was his father's tractor? I'll bet his father was too young to run one, in 1980...when I quit working on the golf course.

It's a rare tractor because Deutz-Allis never got market share. Everyone knew it was just European financiers trying to wring the corpse of Allis-Chalmers for a few more bucks; and support, in the future, was gonna be minimal.

We lost a lot of tractor makers in those years. IH was about to fall. Ford was folding its cards. Massey-Ferguson...don't know what happened; just that they slowly disappeared. White. David Brown, anyone? They were an English engineering company with a tractor subsidiary. Sold it to Case about 1972, and for some reason, Case shut it down a few years later.

Case's motto then was, go big or go broke. The company became huge - buying IH's farm-equipment and tractor lines; and then focusing on mega-tractors and construction equipment. They're owned by Europeans...Davos, probably, now.

Only John Deere stayed clean of that chaos; but now they're big on preventing owner repairs. Which makes zero sense, given how and where farm equipment is used....that will be the end of Deere.
 
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Seems American and the West, are just ceding the motor industry to CHY-nuh...same as, thirty years ago, they did the electronics and appliance industries. So our cars will "drop" in price - back to, about what they were before Obombahregs...but will be shoddy, short-lived, but ruled "compliant" by the captured regulators.

I guess, if the Government Class doesn't have the fortitude to do what they want, which is, outlaw cars...this is the next-best thing: Make cars shoddy, overpriced and useless.

I see the Rich People's Car Works (Volkswagenwerk AG) with their new "Scout" battery-device division, has 160,000 "reservations." That almost-certainly will play out like the Cybertruck - all those soyboiz in Mommy's basement, pay $10 Paypal as a deposit. When they have NO WAY of actually buying, much less using (charging and parking) the actual truck.

Just another day in post-industrial, Enshittified Clown World.
 

Inside America’s Oldest & Largest Used Semi Truck Salvage Yard​

Jan 23, 2026
What really happens to a wrecked semi truck? And how can owner-operators save thousands (even six figures) by buying used instead of new?
In this video, we go inside America’s oldest and largest used semi truck salvage operation — Vander Haag’s — to show how wrecked trucks, trailers, and heavy-duty equipment get a second life. With 85+ years in business, Vander Haag’s has built a national reputation for helping owner-operators and small fleets lower overhead with used trucks, engines, transmissions, and parts.
New semi trucks can cost $100,000–$200,000, but in this tour, you’ll see how drivers can get into a reliable used truck for $20K–$60K, often with warranties and installation options available. From salvaged engines and drivetrains to full truck builds and installs, this is a true one-stop shop for truckers trying to survive — and win — in today’s market.
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I'm not a trucker, but I used to play one between choo-choo gigs. I drove a tractor-trailer, maybe a total of 18 months, over a 20-year span.

There are PLENTY of sound, reliable trucks out there...or were, when I was fooling around. You could see them working non-common-carrier jobs...say, jockeying construction trailers around, or pulling carneys' trailers, loaded with knocked-down Ferris Wheels...that kind of work. Hauling a farm's produce to a local resorting spot.

What puts those trucks off the road, is INSURANCE. Getting insurance on something older than a certain cutoff...used to be, ten years, it varies with various edicts and stat spreadsheets the bean-counters get...but you just cannot get insurance.

Right now, you've got two kinds of OTR operators: Fleets, and O/O truckers. The owner/operators buy their insurance, either in the market or they get coverage through whoever they're contracted to. The carriers who contract owner-operators don't want to see older trucks out there...in their shriveled mind, old translates to unreliable and service delays. Individual performance doesn't count. Plus, of course...this Safety Cult mindset has trickled in. Airbags for TRUCKS, FFS? I couldn't believe it, but it's true. I look at the cab interiors of these new trucks, padded car-steering-wheels, automatic transmissions...I can't believe it. I learned how to drive on a 1975 Kenworth conventional...it was only a generation removed from the "Duel" truck used in that classic movie. Looked very similar, except it was clean and in good order. Painted metal dash, Bakelite huge steering wheel, NO power steering (as late as 1990, NO big rigs had power steering). Stewart-Warner white-needle-on-black-background gauges.

Those trucks get junked for insurance reasons. Plus, now, CARB won't certify/allow-operation of, diesel engines that were fine by CARB just a few years ago. The incredible cost of replacing a huge diesel for POLITICAL (junk-science) reasons, in an old frame (the diesel engine is the most expensive component in that truck)...the numbers don't add up. Banks and finance companies are not going to loan to buy a new engine, but they'll eagerly finance a new truck.
 
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