Ford 1976

[timff]

Hi, a question that's been whizzing around the grey cells is...why did Ford create the 600 series for about 6 months with the old Fieco cab rather than go straight from the 1000 series to the 600 series at Q cab time in summer 76? Can't have been a period of testing as the 600 series is essentially the same as what ran before. Any ideas? Simply a time to use up old Fiecos and wings?

 

[Flat 10]

Hi, a question that's been whizzing around the grey cells is...why did Ford create the 600 series for about 6 months with the old Fieco cab rather than go straight from the 1000 series to the 600 series at Q cab time in summer 76? Can't have been a period of testing as the 600 series is essentially the same as what ran before. Any ideas? Simply a time to use up old Fiecos and wings?

No idea. Only obvious difference l can think of is paper air cleaners on 600 series. Perhaps it was a ploy to boost sales otherwise everyone would have waited until the new cabs came out? I really don’t know.

 

[7610 super q]

Q Cab designs took longer than expected, according to Stuart Gibbard's book.
They were supposed to be launched with Q cabs from the start.

 

[C.J]

Our neighbours had one like this - an R reg I think.

 

[Roy Stokes]

Our neighbours had one like this - an R reg I think.

We had a P reg version, was a good tractor to us, affectionately named the "knock box"

 

[timff]

Thanks all. Delays in Q cab makes sense. 7610 thanks. Which book by Stuart gibbard?

 

[7610 super q]

Thanks all. Delays in Q cab makes sense. 7610 thanks. Which book by Stuart gibbard?

Ford Tractor Story. Part 2.......

 

[glasshouse]

ford were very late with a q cab, but it blew the others away

 

[8100]

A lad i went to school with told me when the new ford arrived with q cab his dad had a rule of making drivers take there wellys off on the tractor steps and don slippers or shoes as he was so chuffed with it

 

[Maico490]

Somewhere hidden away with other rubbish I've got a full set of brochures from 2600 to 9600 with the old cabs.

 

[Roy Stokes]

Somewhere hidden away with other rubbish I've got a full set of brochures from 2600 to 9600 with the old cabs.

Stuart Gibbard might well be interested in buying such items

 

[Ray996]

Somewhere hidden away with other rubbish I've got a full set of brochures from 2600 to 9600 with the old cabs.

Have set of similar brochures with bubble cab on tractors,set of county brochures inbox to

 

[Lincsman]

600's were the start of alternator fitting and exhaust moving away from driver, tractors had a long waiting list in those days remember, and hanging around for the new cab wouldnt be an option.

 

[yellowbelly]

Somewhere hidden away with other rubbish I've got a full set of brochures from 2600 to 9600 with the old cabs.

Same here.............

 

[Flat 10]

Whose actually got a real one rather than a brochure?

 

[Roy Stokes]

Whose actually got a real one rather than a brochure?

Thomkinson tractors over here who specialises in 2nd hand Ford/New Holland has 2 models and aspires to collect all of the 600's with Fieco cab

 

[timff]

Yes, I've got the full set of 600's with Fieco and Q cab. Collected from Skinners of Reading on my regular trips to the cattle market with Dad in the 70's!
Brochures I mean sadly not the real things...

 

[jf850]

Whose actually got a real one rather than a brochure?

My now 88 yr old father bought this 5600 new in Perry's of Athy for £4100 . No puh but does have power steering . Clock hasn't worked since 2950 hrs, many many years ago. Engine rebuilt in 1995. Dp revealed and clutch disc then too. Pressure plate in it since 1981. A lot of work done. See remains of clutch.pedal and steering wheel wear.....

 

[timff]

Blimey JF, never seen a clutch pedal that far gone! She's a beauty - the 5600 is rare - deserves a rebuild but looks too busy for that!

 

[jf850]

It's not killed now. It's been powerwashing today yesterday as well as the bit of scraping. It cut our own silage with a single chop for 10 years . Then , an Fc80 If for 10 more. Then 5 or 6 more working an FCT 110. Pulls a 14 x 8 trailer on the job now. Spreads a lot of the fertiliser. Main work done by a Zetor 10641, which I am very fond of.
It deserves a rebuild I suppose.
It dissent need one mechanically. Just a power steering pump. Maybe rebuild it own radiator.
Rear wings are shook. Needs paint badly. But where do you start . And where do you finish. Also if you do a proper job on it , is that the end of working it.
It arrived new on the 26 th of February 1976 , nearly 42 years here.
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