Your first Allis purchase

Dad gave me the WD-45 gas I grew up on.  It had been sitting down by the creek for years.  Has wide front.  I hired a neighbor to restore it to running condition, then hired another neighbor to paint it.  Then new tires, etc.  Got over $3000 in it, but won't ever sell it - will go to my kids.  It gave me Classic Tractor Fever bad.  Next bought a WD, just like my Grandad had - NF and charlyn power steering.  Then an unstyled WC, like my other grandad had (he passed away when I was 6 months old).  

First and only, the 7045 bought in 2011

Acdiesel wrote: 34 Airflow wrote: My First Allis was a WF that I bought in 1994 which is still in my collection today. I was 13 at the time and my grandfather was encouraging me to get involved in his hobby. THIS IS A GREAT LOOKING TRACTOR!! DAN

Michael,,,,,,,,,,,,,I'm either pizzed or REAL jealous!!
You mean Shameless got down that far??  LOL

My first tractor I bought was the 1954 WD45 I grew up on. My father owned it from 1990-1999 and he got it from an estate of the original owner and it was to replace a WD we had that crapped out. I raked a lot of hay with this tractor. I found it and bought it back in 2012. Here is a picture of it in 1999, right before we sold it. It was very clean and straight when it left and by time I got it back, it was pretty rusty from sitting out all the years. The WD was nicer and sat in the back of the barn until 2004 when it was sold as a project tractor.

Bought a 160 a year ago. It has been an awesome tractor for our little farm.  Started it when it was 2 degrees the other day and it fired up like it was the middle of summer. Just a great little tractor!

My first purchase was a 1952 CA in 1987.  Dad helped me overhaul the engine and install a new 2nd gear the following winter.  Still use it every summer mowing grass at the family farm.

Eldon (WA) wrote: Tracy Martin TN wrote: My first was a 1978 AC 185. Still have it. Haven't put many hours on it.   Tracy I remember that tractor...and  the model you had posing on it

In 1985 my grandpa gave me a 1/16 scale 8010. First real 1 I bought was a 69 190xt in 1999 my junior year in high school for $4300.

Bought my first Allis, a '41 B, in the early 80"s, a few years after we moved to Maine. I bought it with a stuck engine ("it ran when we backed it into the line") from an AC dealer in Auburn, Maine. I rented a trailer from the local Agway manager for $20 and took off with my 72 Chevy 1/2 ton, with the Irish setter riding shotgun, to fetch her. I had bought some chains and hooks to "tie her down", (who ever heard of chain binders).

Loaded, set the brakes and put her in gear. When I got home, the engine was free from the rocking back and forth. Put in some gas, towed it and was running in a half hour.After buying about 16 more tractors, this '41 B is next in line for restoration. Bob@allisdowneast

Moved here in Jan 78 was looking for a B,C,or CA found a 49 WD that summer & the old guy talked me into it (price helped too $650.oo with loader,hot house & large snow bucket) sold it back to his grandson years later to buy a D-17. I have Dad's WD a WD-45 & a 175D. The D-17 is now the grandson's...Harvey

A 1952 CA that I bought in 1998.

My first was a new series 2 D-15 in 1963 when I was 13 years old.

First crawler I drove was dads K, I was about 12 or 13. Had to be tall enough to push the brake and still pull the steering clutch.

I have granddads WD, that's my Dad on it in the pic under my name... or whatever you call it,, the first one I bought by myself,, a WD bout 35 miles from here,, its jus snowballed since then,, I seem to get at least 2 tractors per year....jeez,, I'll list the outlaws first..