Funny how you seek out all my posts. You seem almost obsessed. Kinda weird, considering your locale.
And you don't know jack about this topic. Diesel Farmalls had nothing to do with why IH went down. If you'd like to be informed and enlightened, read "Fall of an Empire, The Agony of International Harvestor". Or go on thinking whatever you want. At one time IHC was the 3rd largest corporation in the country, a few diesel models couldn't have, and didn't, change that. It was a complex series of events that I won't waste my time going into here. Suffice it to say, it was mismanagement, not a motor that warms up on gasoline and swithces to diesel.
Interesting though how so many, (most) early models of H's and M's were all fuels, where you had to do that very thing, warm up on gas and switch to tractor fuel. They became the largest tractor company in the world with that technology, and you claim that's what caused their demise. Pretty funny.
The Model H still holds the record for the single model of tractor that has provided the most horsepower to the world. You can have your green 2 lungers.
Now, off to Snopes with you for your fact checking.
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