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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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Philly man charged with 'title washing' stolen luxury cars worth $3.8 million

Adam Richardson, 40, allegedly submitted false paperwork to obtain new Pennsylvania titles for 65 stolen vehicles.
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AG Sunday, Pa. State Police Charge Philadelphia Man in Vehicle Title-Washing Scheme Involving $3.8M in Stolen Luxury Vehicles

PHILADELPHIA — Attorney General Dave Sunday, along with the Pennsylvania State Police, announced charges against a Philadelphia man for his role in a vehicle title-washing scheme that facilitated the black market sales of dozens of stolen luxury vehicles — valued at nearly $4 million.
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Man Charged in Title-Washing Scheme of 65 Cars Worth $3.8 Million​


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^^^

I don't get it.

Why deal with the risk, hassle and BS of buying a stolen car? And of course the buyers knew, or should have suspected, those were stolen. When a deal is too good to be true, then eventually an explanation comes out that's too true to be good.

Why not just open a Learing Centre, or overnite-flite NGO out of Trashkanistan, and pocket the cost overruns? Guaranteed, NO jail time.
 
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Just had to replace the radiator on my Ford / New Holland 4630. I figured it would be no big deal. How difficult can a radiator be, right?

Turns out I had to pretty much take the entire front off the tractor to get to it. Replaced the hoses, clamps, and fan belt while I was at it. Saved a pile of money doing it myself though. I can't begin to imagine what the dealer would have wanted for that job.



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Anything older than a Golden Harvester model (forget the model number; but it was the replacement for the 8N)...you don't want.

First came the redesigns by engineers who'd never used a tractor. The 1970s three-cylinder Fords were high-revving, low-torque POSs that made every task a chore.

Then came essentially, engineering-abandonment. Ford coasted for years on inertia, before selling out to New Holland.

Which I've not heard much good about. No one I've ever known, used NH equipment - I knew farmers who swore by Case; some Farmall fans; we ran Fords and a David Brown (defunct 1975) on the golf course I worked on, along with a couple specialty Jacobsen tractors. But New Holland...that was the company that the conglomerate Sperry bought up, and later sold off when Burroughs bought them, to focus on computer products.

Another money-grab...buy the industry, and then HARVEST profits, and then sell the tangibles and intellectual property once there's nothing left to bleed.

Glad you saved money. What the John Deere people are dealing with, now, with requiring Factory Service personnel deep in their fields, waiting weeks...it's well you did the job, no matter how hard.
 
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Anything older than a Golden Harvester model (forget the model number; but it was the replacement for the 8N)...you don't want.

First came the redesigns by engineers who'd never used a tractor. The 1970s three-cylinder Fords were high-revving, low-torque POSs that made every task a chore.

Then came essentially, engineering-abandonment. Ford coasted for years on inertia, before selling out to New Holland.

Which I've not heard much good about. No one I've ever known, used NH equipment - I knew farmers who swore by Case; some Farmall fans; we ran Fords and a David Brown (defunct 1975) on the golf course I worked on, along with a couple specialty Jacobsen tractors. But New Holland...that was the company that the conglomerate Sperry bought up, and later sold off when Burroughs bought them, to focus on computer products.

Another money-grab...buy the industry, and then HARVEST profits, and then sell the tangibles and intellectual property once there's nothing left to bleed.

Glad you saved money. What the John Deere people are dealing with, now, with requiring Factory Service personnel deep in their fields, waiting weeks...it's well you did the job, no matter how hard.
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Well, it's 28 years old and this is the first issue I've had with it. You would think that Ford could design a radiator that would last more than 28 years but apparently, they cannot. This unit was built in the UK. I understand that the new ones are being built in India. I would probably avoid one of those. All in all, it's been a great tractor - always starts and zero leaks.

Edited to add: Just remembered that I had to replace the seat after about 25 years because the vinyl started to crack.
 
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Edited to add: Just remembered that I had to replace the seat after about 25 years because the vinyl started to crack.
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That's why the old steel dished seat.

All our tractors but the DB had those. Hard on the derriere? Sure, we had cushions. Salvaged from old clubhouse furniture, left from when the clubhouse burned down. Plus, our equipment was seldom left outdoors when not in use - we had a big pole barn and everything went in when the crew went home.

Small thing, but it's illustrative. Glad you had mostly good luck with yours. I had good luck with a used Kia ten years ago, too...but my experience was the exception.

Made in India, huh? That centre of precision engineering. Henry Ford would have pitched one of his temper tantrums...the tractor was one of his pet projects. He did cars for the money - and to liberate farmers. But he did tractors even though he expected no money out of them - and was blocked by his own investors, which was why he had to form a new company to build them, Fordson.

To move it all to INDIA...words fail me.
 
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