DB contest to win an Aston Martin.

[rorsday]

The winner had a choice: keep the car and live with his parents, or sell it and put the money into a bungalow of his own...IMO, that's a no-brainer!

 

[Still Farming]

If he had kept it it be a mansion now or well over 800 acre farm somwhere?

 

[Exfarmer]

If he had kept it it be a mansion now or well over 800 acre farm somwhere?

The DB6 is not in that league yet

 

[Suffolk Serf]

Well out of Aston Martin league I know, but I won a Landrover Freelander with a Case tractor. The Freelander lasted longer than the tractor.
I think Case gave four or five away to help shift the last of the 42 series.

 

[Red Fred]

I think our 1394 was a bit of a friday afternoon job as it had various niggles compared to the previous 1390. I put it down to the quality control going downhill once they knew the factory was closing.

 

[Still Farming]

Well out of Aston Martin league I know, but I won a Landrover Freelander with a Case tractor. The Freelander lasted longer than the tractor.
I think Case gave four or five away to help shift the last of the 42 series.

That's a miracle ?

 

[Suffolk Serf]

That's a miracle ?

Yes, me winning anything is a miracle.

 

[Roy_H]

The Freelander lasted longer than the tractor.

Wow that tractor must have been bad!

 

[Wellytrack]

Can't blame the man, I would have done the very same and never regretted it.

 

[Suffolk Serf]

Wow that tractor must have been bad!

Yes it was, a 4240XL, with cheap old Riko loader. The Freelander was a diesel 5 door and is I think that the local bloke I sold it to after I ran it for ten years or so, still has it, but not on the road.
The IH went after about five years.

 

[Wellytrack]

Yes it was, a 4240XL, with cheap old Riko loader. The Freelander was a diesel 5 door and is I think that the local bloke I sold it to after I ran it for ten years or so, still has it, but not on the road.
The IH went after about five years.

Ironically the best thing about both products was their aging and outdated diesel engines.

 

[Roy_H]

Yes it was, a 4240XL, with cheap old Riko loader. The Freelander was a diesel 5 door and is I think that the local bloke I sold it to after I ran it for ten years or so, still has it, but not on the road.
The IH went after about five years.

The last IH we had only stayed with us 5 years too. A 674, nothing but trouble.

 

[Exfarmer]

That's a miracle ?

Have you seen how pigmen treat their tractors

 

[Still Farming]

Have you seen how pigmen treat their tractors

Freelander ?
Good tractor 42 series here

 

[rorsday]

Here you go, feast on this, a scan of the actual original transparency that was commissioned by Case-IH to accompany the competition to win the Aston Martin DB in late 1987/early 1988. The car was painted in Case-IH red by the way!

 

[Wellytrack]

Here you go, feast on this, a scan of the actual original transparency that was commissioned by Case-IH to accompany the competition to win the Aston Martin DB in late 1987/early 1988. The car was painted in Case-IH red by the way! View attachment 562712

If only someone bought a 1594 just like that, and had kept it, replaced, repaired and upgraded components for 30 years in a triggeresque fashion, flettled, tweaked and rubbed and tucked her up with a hot water bottle each night and then told us how well it was standing the times with modern tractors..


Sigh.........


I guess we will never know...

 

[Exfarmer]

It

Here you go, feast on this, a scan of the actual original transparency that was commissioned by Case-IH to accompany the competition to win the Aston Martin DB in late 1987/early 1988. The car was painted in Case-IH red by the way! View attachment 562712

It was nothing new to paint Astons in tractor colours, some were painted in the famous Meltham hunting pink years earlier

 

[Still Farming]

If only someone bought a 1594 just like that, and had kept it, replaced, repaired and upgraded components for 30 years in a triggeresque fashion, flettled, tweaked and rubbed and tucked her up with a hot water bottle each night and then told us how well it was standing the times with modern tractors..


Sigh.........


I guess we will never know...

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