How did you become an Allis fan?

When I was a boy of 5 or 6 years old we moved right beside a AC dealer , every day I walked through those beautiful orange tractors wishing I had one . When I got older I worked for all the farmers  driveing their AC tractors ,then I would go home and harness the mule and plow the garden. So I guess Ive loved them all my  life.

My dad and uncle owned an Allis dealership in the 50's.  I have vivid memories of county fair week when you spent two or three days moving tractors and equipment from the shop to the fair where a tent was set up.  During fair week you spent time from late afternoon to late at night meting people at the tent and living on fair food.  After the dealership closed my dad farmed with a 53 WD for several years.  I have the 49 G dad sold to my grandfather.  Sadly the WD got away.  The G keeps company with a D15, D10 and D12.

Grandpa started it all back in 1948 with the brand new WD. He did have a couple of red ones before that so I've heard. Dad still has the old WD which happens to be the same age as him. A couple of used WDs also came and went before the used WD45 which Dad still has as well. Then Grandpa went Oliver with a 770 for the 6 cyl and live PTO. When Dad was finally old enough to start farming with him, he convinced grandpa to buy the used 190XT which he also still has. Grandpa finished his farming years with an Oliver 1750. Dad never strayed from the orange. I can remember sitting on the 190XT's fuel tank nestled between Dad's seat and the fender while he worked the fields. On the way home, he would put me on his lap so I could "steer" while he kept bumping up the throttle. I grew up learning to drive on the old WD and WD45. Years later I was finally allowed to drive the 190XT. I recall being allowed to drive his trucks long before getting the approval to occupy the 190XT's seat by myself.

grew up in se MI in the 60s. i ate alot of cereal to get the orange plastic a/c model. cant remember which brand of cereal or what you did to get. i think you had to send in $3 + a box top or somthing like that. i do remember cking the mail every day and being so excited when it arrived. we had so many my brother and i would glue the rear tires togather and make duals and triples ,wish i would have kept them like so many other things.  most of the farms by us were red and my grandfather had a cub i drove everyday but the cereal model stuck with me sum 45 years later still love em.
does anyone remember if it was a d 14, 15,17?? i still like the d series but want to own a 185 one day. hm 

Born into it, raised on A-Cs.  I was doomed when the second word I learned was "WD".

Jim

Great grandfather, uncle, and Dad farmed with AC and John Deere.  Dad and uncle started an AC dealership that they had in the 60's and 70's.  Was an Allis fanatic from the beginning.