Things are changing for me once again. Looks like I'll be working in the Dallas, TX area for a while. Might even, eventually, make a permanent move. I don't know for sure yet. I just know it will be for a couple of years.
To that end, I don't think I want to be hauling dad's old 420c all over the map once more. The last time I went thru this, coming to NC from NY, the old girl wound up stuck in the back corner of a workshop for danged near a decade.
I don't want that to happen to her again, and I don't want it sitting here, unused, while I'm off elsewhere for 2-3 years.
So, I'm thinking that someone out there might want a machine that won't be a problem to restore. If so, then I have what you're looking for.
I've been thinking about letting the 420c go for the past year, anyway. I'd much rather have a JD350 instead. Heck, once I had one of those, and I like using it better than the 420c anyway. Until things changed the last time, that is.
I let the 350 go in favor of the 420c, which I can haul on my 5-ton flatbed trailer. That was when I was moving 600 miles. This time it's twice that, so I'm thinking twice here....
I won't let her go cheap, though. So, I'm going to set the asking price at $8k and we can go from there.
If anyone wants to see photos, they're in the show & tell:
http://www.jdcrawlers.com/messageboard/ ... php?t=4674
Those are from this spring when I pulled it out of the barn and had not yet run the winter rust scale off of her.
There is very little that is not original on her. The seat back is the most obvious, being a 2010 seat bottom. The seat bottom is the usual tractor store offering, not the thicker one it ought to have - where does one get those these days anyway? There are reinforcing plates welded onto the fenders to correct the usual cracking issues. I put in a new radiator and water pump a few years ago, but I still have the originals.
Anyway, any interest, PM or email wa2kqy at mindspring dot com
Later!
Stan
