One-Ninety Diesel History 1973

The poor mighty One-Ninety....in 1970 they only sold 74......1971 they sold 76......1972 they sold 73.   The new model 200 tractor I believe was released in Jan of 1972 and they made 2339 units that full year.

One-Ninety (75 to 77 HP) and One-Ninety XT (90 to 94 HP) are two different models.  It appears that the Crop Hustler 185 (74 HP) took away many One-Ninety sales. It was cheaper and lower to the ground for a handier all-around unit.

Oddly enough, the One-Ninety’s production began with 1502 units built in 1964. It offered a G2500 75hp gas or 2800 77hp diesel. NO XT units that year.

Then in 1965, AC also began offering the XT version, but it upped its gas to the 90hp G2800, the 85hp G2800 LP engine’s and increased it diesel to the 94hp turbo 2900. That year alone, AC built 4,293 XT units!

Ending it production years in 1972 & 1973, the One-Ninety was again the ONLY version AC built, with 73 & 23 respectively.

Edited by AC7060IL - 02 Jan 2021 at 4:08pm

HHMMM, interesting but not true- in my opinion- where did this last info come from ?

My dad and uncle bought a Series 3 XT 190 "Landhandler" brand new in 72. We still have it today. It pulled a 2300 18' disk for years with saddle tanks. 18.4x34's with duals. Bought a brand new 200 in 74 but the XT was the main tillage tractor. After the purchase of the 8050 in 85, the XT was "retired" from field work. So we put a 500 loader on it and it became the feed grinding, manure loading tractor. It became the orphan, run it an hour or 2 every day and not get the maintenance it should. We have replaced the motor and have swapped out rear ends but the serial number is original. If I ever get the chance, I'll restore it. I had no idea the XT sales numbers were that low.
Leon B Mo

A total of 4,726 One-Ninety units built(1964-1973). A total of 22,419 XT units built(1965-1971).

Qustioning the low numbers , but they were prolly right

I remember seeing a late 190 at an auction once when I was probably a teenager or in my early 20's. If I remember right it had the Landhandler decal on it. Am I remembering correctly?

My first Allis that I bought by myself was an Allis Chalmers 190- small axles, just bought it to tractor pull - and done great with it

My money would be on they used up the remaining 190 parts since 200 was different. A 190 without turbo didn't need the upgraded components.

just dug out my original brochure with the invoices still paper clipped in back page. They hardly promoted the 190 at all, every picture but one is an XT. The 190D was 6317 with stolper cab, and 2042# of weights, but I remember the rear weights being rowe. Don't see serial number anywhere here. Invoice is dated 3-26-70.

I remember in 1976 trying to buy a 190, don't remember the year of tractor but at the time was too much money for me.  It was a diesel, ended up with 706 IH  gas.

Maybe that’s why they call them squareheads. Lol. 

I got in on buying some stuff around Thanksgiving time of 1985. I think I heard about it from John Rosendahl or Joe Dewane. Anyway, I had a truckload of stuff that I thought was a good deal, but didn't see what Tbran was talking about.

AC had a sale at the tractor plant - It was a dealer only special invite.  Deutz Allis had to bid against the dealers for parts.  There was a representative from Batavia parts who had a couple of assistants  with a ton of paper inventory sheets.  They bought about a third of the parts I would guess.  Some things dealers would not buy that AC parts did.. I became agitated with one dealer who ran up the bid and bragged "I made them pay for that".  I explained to him if he needed one of those rare parts he just cost himself big money.  I owe Homier Equipment - Bill big time as he assisted me in transportation arrangement of which I was clueless.   We bought 2 truck loads of high clear 7000 tractor parts that went to La. then back to Ind. years later to the Hunleys. 

Edited by tbran - 05 Jan 2021 at 8:04pm