To clear up some of the time line I'll try to get this all correct as I was at Hesston then Ford/New Holland dealers in this time frame. Fiat Agri bought Hesston in the mid 80's, but before they bought the Ford/New Holland AG and Industrial, that is when Hesston got the FIAT Wheathead emblem, and went to "Autumn Prime(er)" from red. Took a lot of reaming from fellow parts guy at the Ford/New Holland dealer next town over. Then FIAT bought Ford/ New Holland from Ford Motor Corporation. My turn to tease him about spaghetti. Since they would have owned both New Holland and Hesston (as I recall about 80 percent of the hay tool market) the justice department wouldn't let it go through unless they divested either Hesston or New Holland. they chose wisely and sold Hesston IN NORTH AMERICA, not Europe. That is how the FIAT/Hesston tractors ended up with New Holland instead of AGCO. The FIAT tractor parts WERE orderable through the New Holland parts system, but the dealer would have to look then up on old micro fiche as they were not in the computerized parts catalogs. The Genesis tractors (8670-8970) were sold in Europe with the "Autumn Prime(er)" paint job and different model numbers.
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Today's Featured Article - An Old-Time Tractor Demonstration - by Kim Pratt. Sam was born in rural Kansas in 1926. His dad was a hard-working farmer and the children worked hard everyday to help ends meet. In the rural area he grew up in, the highlight of the week was Saturday when many people took a break from their work to go to town. It was on one such Saturday in the early 1940's when Sam was 16 years old that he ended up in Dennison, Kansas to watch a demonstration of a new tractor being put on by a local dealer. It was an Allis-Chalmers tractor dealership,
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