Farmall-Land Museum Announces 2009 Features

By Bill Vossler
Published on June 30, 2009
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Courtesy Renander Photos
One of the featured tractors of the 2009 season at Farmall-Land museum: the first Farmall Regular sold in row-crop configuration.

Special features at the Farmall-Land museum, Avoca, Iowa, include two noteworthy Farmall tractors: the beginning of the line, and the end of the line.

Museum visitors will get a look at the first Farmall Regular ever sold in row-crop configuration to the general public, no. QC503.

“It was sold to Roy Murphy, West Burlington, Iowa, March 1, 1924,” says owner Jerry Mez, “and was used on that farm for years. International Harvester Co. got it back and restored it, and it’s in real decent shape.” The tractor has been pictured in C.H. Wendel’s 150 Years of International Harvester and Randy Leffingwell’s Farmall: Eight Decades of Innovation.

The second featured item for 2009 is the last tractor built at the Rock Island, Ill., Farmall plant. Built May 14, 1985, the 5488 all-wheel drive (no. 4452) was never sold and looks like new. “It’s more important to me than the first one ever built,” Jerry says, “because it meant the end of an era. After that, the company was taken over by Tenneco Inc.”

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