D-21 Prototype
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Topic: D-21 Prototype
Posted By: Dean(IA)
Subject: D-21 Prototype
Date Posted: 04 Jan 2021 at 1:42pm
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Posted By: Dean(IA)
Date Posted: 04 Jan 2021 at 1:46pm
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The D-21 prototype had styling along the D Series lines. There were red spies and green and yellow spies all around. The photo was put together on Photoshop from an Allis-Chalmers movie posted by Austin Frederick. It looked to me like the D-21 was close to the specs of the production tractor. ------------- Dean(IA) |
Posted By: DougG
Date Posted: 05 Jan 2021 at 6:26pm
| SO GLAD THEY DIDNT GO THAT ROUTE ! YIKES |
Posted By: FREEDGUY
Date Posted: 05 Jan 2021 at 6:34pm
++ 1000 !!! That's a D 19 with big rubbers
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DougG wrote:Posted By: Play Farmer
Date Posted: 05 Jan 2021 at 6:43pm
Agreed. The D21 is one of the best looking tractors ever made IMO. |
Posted By: DougG
Date Posted: 05 Jan 2021 at 7:32pm
| No kidding fellas, the Allis Chalmers D21 style is great- they went to the Industrial Division for this - the 7000 series styling was out sorced to bring a different idea in - and they did- very nice style , except different - and folks of the time couldnt recognize - different |
Posted By: tbran
Date Posted: 05 Jan 2021 at 8:07pm
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Yea Doug, everyone made fun of the 7000 rounded sloped hoods... said "that will never catch on" .... ------------- When told "it's not the money,it's the principle", remember, it's always the money.. |
Posted By: DougG
Date Posted: 05 Jan 2021 at 8:14pm
| And look at it now! Another inovation |
Posted By: SteveM C/IL
Date Posted: 05 Jan 2021 at 9:12pm
They were UGLY for sure. I was in shock! I was young and had no idea the quality of the tractor hidden inside.
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Posted By: Play Farmer
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2021 at 5:17am
That surprises me. I grew up on a green farm and I always thought the 7000 series looked good. Heck 1/2 the reason I bought my 7000 was the nostalgia from my childhood. I certainly didn't need another tractor, but hey, can you ever really have enough toys, err, tractors, I mean tractors. |
Posted By: Gary Burnett
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2021 at 6:48am
Agree they were ugly and went from metal to fiberglass a step downhill
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