A County's big wheels aren't really all that big, any more, eitherI think the best you can hope for is, these things ' hold ' their value.
I can't see the next generation being particularly interested in uncomfortable / loud Countys, after being used to air con/ airseat/ front suspension/ cab suspension/ twin beacon stuff.
Just buy it to enjoy yourself. Part of the fun is restoring it yourself anyway ?
If it goes up in value, great. But don't bank on it.
Absolutely correct imo. Standard Fordsons would be a good case in point. All the men who remember them nostalgically are now too old to be buying them, so the demand for them has bombed!The way I see vintage stuff (like cars and tractors), it has two big spikes in value as it gets older.
New: expensive, relative to the day.
From new to 25 years old: depreciates to almost rock-bottom.
25 years old: Big (sometimes HUGE) spike in value, as the guys that remember them being around when they were young now have the money to buy one for 'fun'.
Five or ten years later and thereafter: steady depreciation unless it's weird/exotic/rare, as the fashion moves on to the next generation. The guys that remembered the subject and bought them start to die off (macabre, but it happens!).
100 years old: massive spike in value again, because it's so damn old.
The last one might not be all that applicable in the future, though, as cars and tractors before 1916 were pretty rare - anything thereafter, far less so.
Stuff like you Elvis memorabilia could be similar - the fans from the age are starting to kick the bucket, now, so their money is best spend on violent carers than signed plates.
I wonder what the story is behind the low houred Massey 390?Other than a few stand out tractors there like the mf 390 at £27k , I didnt think any of the prices where that high and the massey has just has 11hrs on the clock as a usable machine its worth at all day long what else could you buy to use for that money also the tidy 7810 for £12.600 a couple options on new tractor cost that let alone a complete tractor.
7710 for 3k a bit rough but hardly pricy, a heap of scap metal at farm sale will bring half that price , and i mean a heap scrap metal in heap not tractors.
It's a massey. Couldn't get it started again!I wonder what the story is behind the low houred Massey 390?
Surprised Classic Tractor have not done a feature on it.I wonder what the story is behind the low houred Massey 390?