Mrotek Bros MN auction?

John Mrotek and his brother each had large collection of Allis Chalmers tractors (mostly <60 HP including many G's) that was sold this past weekend in MN. Anyone know how things sold; buy anything. Herb(GA)

I stood near the man who bought the road grader. I know about what he paid. I thought most everything was priced pretty low but most restores were old and others were just dipped in paint a long time ago. I think these brothers were collecting long before collecting tractors was in vogue so before restoring got real serious. The D21 went for $14500 and was not bad looking. Had a couple minor issues like the adjusting cranks on 3-point broken off. The D14 was pretty nice and IMO went far too cheap at $1500. The WD re powered with a Chevy 283 went for $3100 or there about. I thought that was kinda high but it was a nice looking unit.

Here is a list of higher priced ones most of the letter ones range between 500-1500 depending on restore.
UC 2600, 20-35 3200, IB 1750, D21 14500, D19 1900, D17diesel 2500, D15 1800, D14 1500, D12 III 7500, D10 2400, wd45 diesel 4200, ED40 4600,I600 1500, wd custom V8 3200, D road grader 3500, wc grader 3750, G 2000, 7040 w/loader 5000, G 1/3 &1/4 scale 1100 close to being right as was talking to others and lost track on some.mowers all over the board. Threshing machine 3200, rest of implements 50-1000

Could be or i read wrong on computer. Eithet way it adds up

I bought several of the tractors, including a model U, and the 20-35.

I also bought the threshing machine, the grain truck, and in a face palm moment, I ended up with the MG kit car. But I think I already have it sold....

I bought the first one, and was backup man on the second one - tell your uncle i'm sorry!

olivetroad wrote: I bought the first one, and was backup man on the second one - tell your uncle i'm sorry! I didn't look at the one I bought before hand, but for $700.00 ($805 with buyers fee!), I now own a model U.  They said it ran.  Did you notice anything major wrong or missing on the U that I purchased?

I didn't really give it a good look over. Was there something wrong? Claire said he would guarantee they all ran.

BTW my uncle had just been telling me that at age 81 he was going to reduce his collection...... then he bid on a couple B's, a CA, that U, and one or two other tractors but got none. He must have around 30 or 40 tractors himself.


Edited by Lonn - 20 Sep 2017 at 11:03am

Doesn't sound like it paid for John to truck all his stuff to Minn. for the auction that had to cost a good amount.

48 WF   1500

AC720Man wrote: Wiill miss seeing Johns collection at Heritage days next month. Always enjoyed seeing them there each year. Thanks John for sharing your orange passion with so many of us for many years. By the way I love your old pickup in AC colors.

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