Your right about the 8N and 9N still being popular, average price around is in in the 2K range too. They were and are just a nice sized tractor. The hay crew I worked on as a kid always used one to haul the hay racks back and forth from the fields to the barn.

Back around 1968 my Dad was working at the local Ford and Oliver Tractor dealership. Even back then when they wore out the farmers opted to have them rebuilt....there was usually always at least one torn down being overhauled.

It didn't take long for the them to start getting upsized engines though, the Funk conversions for Flathead 6s and Flathead V8s were around from 1948. I saw one of the flathead V8 ones once and fell in love with it.

Ford 8N Funk Conversions


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