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Sampson is a 8E45 453 Detroit Tractor and Delilah is a 63 R1 Wagonaire that were shredder bound. I ran across these about 2 weeks ago from a year old post on SDC, that Avantidon had posted entitled "rainy day barn finds". I thought it was a new thread, it wasn't. Anyway I recognized a green 59 1.5 ton from his photo album, that was recently on ebay, with a phone #. I called the # and inquired. The salvage guy planned on putting all of these on ebay, until he got not even 1 bid on the 59' which had a clover leaf block & 5 spd overdrive. After that he figured off to the shredder, this Stude stuff musn't be worth a lick. Then I called, shot the s@*t for a while and we struck a deal on Samson only, he still thought the R1 was worth selling.
I drove 6.5 hours one way this morning to pick up Samson, and after all day of doing car stuff together and haggling back and forth on the R1 we finally came to terms. It was dark by that time so I did not get any better pix of the wagon. I'm going back later to pick up Delilah.
Anyway it's 3:20 AM and i just got home and I'm beat. I'll talk to you guys tomarrow.
John
53' 2R5 R1 Powershift TT Under Construction
57' Transtar 304 NP540 4:09 TT Under Construction (in Picture)
58' 3E6D Stock Sale Pending
61' 6E7 122 Factory Auto
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Sampson is a 8E45 453 Detroit Tractor and Delilah is a 63 R1 Wagonaire that were shredder bound. I ran across these about 2 weeks ago from a year old post on SDC, that Avantidon had posted entitled "rainy day barn finds". I thought it was a new thread, it wasn't. Anyway I recognized a green 59 1.5 ton from his photo album, that was recently on ebay, with a phone #. I called the # and inquired. The salvage guy planned on putting all of these on ebay, until he got not even 1 bid on the 59' which had a clover leaf block & 5 spd overdrive. After that he figured off to the shredder, this Stude stuff musn't be worth a lick. Then I called, shot the s@*t for a while and we struck a deal on Samson only, he still thought the R1 was worth selling.
I drove 6.5 hours one way this morning to pick up Samson, and after all day of doing car stuff together and haggling back and forth on the R1 we finally came to terms. It was dark by that time so I did not get any better pix of the wagon. I'm going back later to pick up Delilah.
Anyway it's 3:20 AM and i just got home and I'm beat. I'll talk to you guys tomarrow.
John
53' 2R5 R1 Powershift TT Under Construction
57' Transtar 304 NP540 4:09 TT Under Construction (in Picture)
58' 3E6D Stock Sale Pending
61' 6E7 122 Factory Auto
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