Will the WD45 ever become rare, more likely than one might think, just as you described, the young'uns are selling off dad's and grandpa's tractors left and right, many to scrap, that will make the extremely common WDs and 45's much less common in the distant future.  Will they ever be as rare as a 6-12, probably not, but they should hold some value in another 100 years when there aren't nearly as many left around.  Obviously that won't likely be in your sons lifetime, but remember if you are collecting tractors to make money, you are in it for the wrong reason.

I think the real factor in the price of antique farm equipment, that isn't present in pretty much any other collectible, is the price of corn.  The reason antique equipment values shot up in the late 2000s and early 2010s is the price of corn shot up, and farmers for the first time in a long time had some extra money laying around.  Now the input costs caught up, and worse yet, now have not gone back down with the sale price, there isn't the extra money laying around for the want to haves, like collecting.

   With the way emissions and computer crap is going these days, they could very easily go up in value just so people don't have to worry about all the extra expensive crap to have a small garden!

   David from jax

But I grew up on orange and like to have them around.

I agree Dan, Todays baby boomers (age to have expendable income) are into the 50-70's muscle cars and the older generation who liked the Model A's, T's etc are not collecting them now and the values/interest drops.  At some point as the next generation comes along, i think we will see the muscle cars decline in value from the highs being paid today as the youth has more interest in other types of cars, etc.

what are we going to see as collector tractors in the future,

sadly I don't think many if any. Seems the collections will disappear once their current owner do. I don't see 'youngins' interested in ANYTHING mechanical, at least around here. There's also the economy factor. Today's kids have next to zero 'exccess money', can't afford a house and car let alone a 'toy'.

sign of the times I think.

I KNOW the day after I'm gone , 3 D-14s and implements WILL be hauled to the scrapyard but not the Kubota, she'll have a surprise on that one....

 

Yeah although I think the Steam era guys thought the same about us.

I have a lot of involvement with collector cars and some of the now thirty year old plastic bumper cars we swore would never be restored are being restored so you just never know. Personally they don't interest me but maybe to someone who is ten years of age now will want to have one in 30 years time.

 

Great to hear, and well done on building up a great collection at your age! I had a few years away from the hobby (although kept everything) before resuming again only a couple of years ago and at 37 I still have time to build it to what I would like. Keep up the great work!

Wdtractorman wrote: Things in my area are coming down, IF you get out and look around. If you go buy cregslist and eday there not, but cregslist and ebay are more and more just the same high priced stuff just staying on for months and even years at a time. Iv bought 2 A farmalls for way less than 1000 in the last month, and there a 9n ford i know about for 300 that i may end up with. Im glade to see the 40s and 50s stuff are coming down bc that what iv alwase liked

Probably a lot more cheap priced things on CL than it seems as the bargains get bought up quick and taken off CL.I bought a New Holland 256 rake for $100 that stayed on CL about 30 minutes,bought a skid loader for $800 that stayed on about 2 hours.The overpriced stuff as you say stays on forever.I always say check CL to check the prices thing will not sell at.