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Oliver Hart Parr 70 any of you have one?

J

JOCCO

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Just an old tractor I like. Do any of you have one or used to have one? pictures would be great.
 
I had a 39 for a lot of years. I just never could fall in love with it. It'd been sitting in the back of the tool shed for a dozen years or more, so I sold it to make room. If I could find another decent original barn find, I'd buy it, but I don't want somebody else's repaint and don't want to restore one.
 
Here is one a friend of mine restored several years ago. It is the second one built! He was very proud of this tractor.
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RR I was referring to the ones like Upton pictured. Yours should be an Oliver 70 styled in 39. I do like the later Oliver 60 and 70 too.
 
This one is probably pretty rare to see. Another one my friend restored. I helped him some. Made new foot boards for it etc. When he passed away I delivered it to his nephew who actually runs an active apple orchard. I thought it was a perfect place for it to end up. I believe he uses it to give customers wagon rides thru his orchard.
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My friend was a stickler for detail. In my opinion his restorations were second to none. All in all he restored right around 35 Hart Parr, Clectracs and Oliver tractors.
 
The first built was delivered right down the road, but there was one deliverd in the neighborhood before #i so where was this one delivered?
 
Not sure. I believe you knew Bill Campbell? I know he found it somewhere in the states and brought it back to Ontario. He knew and told me most of the history on it, but with my memory I would be guessing so I cant say for sure. One part of the story I do remember is the fellow that had it had sold parts of it to someone down the road including the original headlights. I can remember Bill complaining that he paid more to get the original lights back than he paid for the tractor! Maybe someone else on this forum who knew Bill will have a better memory than me and chime in?
 
He bought if from a junk yard here in south bend Indiana. The lights had been taken off of it but they hadnt been sold out of the yard. I cant remember how long after he got the tractor home but some time later it was either him or somebody he knew was searching around in a barn at the same yard and laying in a pile of headlights was the original flat lens lights still attached to the brackets. Dad bought some parts off of him when we were working on our 37 Hart Parr. Got to see #2 in person when he had it down at the National summer show In Lafayette Indiana years ago.
 
I figured someone on here would remember were Bill got this tractor from. Thats great that you knew Bill. He was pretty well known in the Hart Parr world.Now that you say it came out of a junk yard I do recall that. In thinking about it I have the display stand and I think a copy of the write up Bill displayed with the tractor someplace around here. I am going to see if I can find it and maybe it answers Johns question? I should really track down the fellow that ended up with the tractor after Bill passed away, but I might be tempted to try and buy it from him! More realisticaly I should give him the display stand. Hopefully the new owner appreciates the history associated with #2 it as much as Bill did and takes it to some shows.
 
Turned out quite well. (Was actually a 4 cylinder 99) My son and I helped Bill with the build. We went down with him to pick up the
tractor, and had to use shovels to dig it out of the ground. I was concerned we were not going to get it across the border as there was
no head on the tractor with oil and crap laying on top of cylinders, it was covered in dirt and grime which border security tend to frown
upon. We pulled in to a car wash and gave it a quick rinse and thanks to an understanding fellow and the fact it was pouring rain when we
got to border we made it across. Six months later and it looked like a new tractor and pulled like a horse! Bill had some fun with it for
sure before he fell ill with cancer. He pulled with it as well as an 80 at several local pulls. I have never seen anyone build an engine
quite like Bill, but he started at a young age. By the time he was in his early 20's he was building nitro methane engines for top fuel
cars so you can imagine how well the 4 cylinder waukeshaw performed! Anyone who knew Bill knows he didnt do anything without going all
out thats for sure.
 
I really wish that one would have ended up at the Floyd county museum after Bill had it just because of its significance. Hopefully it went to a good home.
 
Here's the second one that they had here on the farm. Uncle Claud bought one on tip toe first, but they did so much custom work with it that they needed one on rubber with a road gear. This one had 8x40 duals. That's Uncle Earl in the first picture. Grandpa standing on the manure spreader tongue in the second picture.

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