Posted new pics - are farm tractors - CARS?

[iowafarmboy]

I posted some pictures I found of my farm tractor models. These are done to 1/16th scale, scratch-built in paper and other cheap materials.

The first one - a Wallis 12-20, from about 1925 - was built after seeing a real one on the Iowa State Fairgrounds, and finding some pictures in a book. The rear wheel was oh - about this tall (measure that distance) and scale / proportion the photos to scale. Crude, but it "worked".

The second - a Hart-Parr 18-36, from about 1930 - was scaled from my Grandfather's real one.

The third - a Rumely Oil-Pull - was scaled from Grandfather's approximate half scale model. He found rear wheels from a manure spreader, front wheels from a cart, the radiator (inside the tower) came from a Chevy Luv pickup, the engine was a 2-cylinder Pullman Upright engine. Grandpa laid it on it's side and had to rig an oil pump on it. Transmission was Model A Ford. He used it in Slow Tractor races, and drove it in parades. It was the first of about five models for grandpa.

The fourth tractor - for me, got started - but never finished. It was / is a Twin City 40-65, from about 1917. A HUGE BEAST of a tractor - but smaller (?!?) than the 60-90 of the same time.

[hot ford coupe]

Can tractors be considered cars? Here goes. First of all, the word tractor comes from the same roots as truck. A tractor is used for dragging things as can be a truck. We welcome trucks here on SMC so by definition a tractor can be a truck. Now, trucks can bring people from one place to another and so can cars. Therefore, trucks are equivalent to cars. Thus by the algebraic equation, if a=b and b=c, then a=c or in other words a tractor can be a car. I gotta stop looking at those durn SAT books.

[Nortley]

From the motorcyclist's viewpoint, most 1:1 cars are tractors, so I think we have a good fit. It's great to have variety in prototypes here.

[Old Busted Hotness]

Are tractors cars? This one sure was:

[Herman]

We have planes as well. I guess a tractor is more car-like then a plane.