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OUR SEARS ROEBUCK "ECONOMY" TRACTOR

By LeRoy Wonder

Danbury, Iowa 51019

I just saw it at a swap meet two years ago. There it was-the frame broken on both sides, one front wheel off, the other with bearings out. The hood was rusted through; the gas tank rusted out, but-I fell for it!

Now usually my wife and I like the same tractors, but when I showed her the Sears she said "NO, we don't need that thing." So we went home without it.

That night I couldn't sleep for thinking about that dumb tractor, so at 4 A.M. I got up. As my wife was busy that day, I called my brother, my son-in-law and my neighbor and hooked up the trailer and took off. (It was 150 miles back to the swap meet.)

We all had a very enjoyable day and carefully loaded the tractor so the whole front end wouldn't break off and eventually we headed for home.

I tore the tractor down and the motor wa...

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