Latest project just rolled
out of the restoration shop. A one owner
Farmall 460 Diesel just listed on the Farmall page. We
also have pictures of what this tractor looked prior to
entering the shop.
Inventory was updated on
1/9/2012
Welcome to the internet home
of Chat's Classic Tractors, Inc.
Directions to our Farm
2012 is here. We
truly are blessed to have this business and our customers
keep us going. 2011 was a good year and are blessed to
have have several restorations in progress and more in line.
Our customers make all this possible, thank you for your
business.
Our tractor covers are made locally in a small volume shop
and we just posted a couple of pictures of a custom cover
that we made up for a local Ford Dealer. The cover
turned out very sharp.
We just added
a few new tractors and also posted a one owner 1987 Ford
Squire Station wagon with only 70,000 miles. We
have too many unrestored tractors so we just listed an Allis
D15 on Ebay.
Our Current Ebay Auctions !!
My wife and webmaster have been
after me to write a book about growing up in the 50's and
stories about the tractors and the good people that we have met in this
business over the previous 10 years. When it gets
finished you all will have a chance to purchase signed
copies off the website. Somehow I will have to find
time between mowing, working on tractors and enjoying life
to get the book written.
One of the
things that has allowed us to enjoy this business has not
having to pay sky high medical insurance premiums.
Once we met the folks from Samaritan and understood the
concept of the health care newsletter, we were sold.
We have been supporting others with our shares for almost 10
years now. If you are struggling with high medical
insurance premiums then you owe it to yourselves to check
them out. Click on their logo, check out their
information and see if it is something that will work for
you. It has been a blessing to us.
Check out Dick's Samaritan interview
Christian Health Care Newsletter
We
have added some new Farmall tractors for sale, my golf cart and moved some
additional tractors to the sold pages. We had a request
for a cover for a Porche tractor last month, we don't see
many of those in the fields. We have been
pretty busy so far this year and see more people starting
truck farms.
Now
available from Chats Tractors. Popular replacement parts
for all major tractor brands. Including Allis, Case, Ford,
Farmall,
John Deere,
Massey Harris/ Ferguson , Avery/
Minneapolis Moline , White/ Oliver, Co-op/
Cockshutt. This book also includes a serial number
and year listing and where to locate serial numbers.
$8.00 plus $ 1 S&H.
If you have
been fortunate enough to have visited our farm when we
haven't been busy, you may have been shown the "museum" as
Bob calls it, over in Avon. The Museum has some of our
finest tractors from our personal collection, and we rarely
ever sell any of them. We have decided that it might
be nice to dedicate someplace on the website for our Museum.
So over the next few months we are going to start taking
pictures and documenting the history of our museum tractors.
Dick is getting motivated to get some more museum pictures,
they had several folks go through it during this year's
Spoon River Drive. We hope that when it is finished that you will enjoy these
tractors as much as we do.
Soon we will begin work on another 54
Farmall Super H. Just added a Farmall 560 Diesel
tractor to the Farmall page and also added our own John
Deere 4430 to the John Deere page, this tractor has been
serviced and is ready to be put to work. We have
a Farmall Super M priced for a quick sale, check the Farmall
page.
Our Current Ebay Auctions !!
We
just added several John Deere and IH plows on the accessories page and we are
busy with more custom restorations than we have been in a
while. We have
a few un-restored Farmall Super MTA's and we just listed a few nice restored Farmall
Tractors on the Farmall page.
We also
have contracted with a local shop to fabricate spoke wagon
wheels for our hay wagons. Check them out on the wagon
page.
Our tractor covers are hand made
for Chat's Tractors locally by a good
friend so you get good quality and the satisfaction that
your purchase is helping a local business. We have had several repeat orders
for covers, and we think that you will be pleased with the
quality. We now have covers in Orange and Green
material and are starting to take orders for Christmas.
These make fine gifts for that hard to please tractor
collector.
Here is
the link to our tractor Cover Page
We restored
an Allis D-15 recently and have a video with before, during,
and after pictures. You will need a high speed
connection to view it but it might help give some insight
into our business. We just finished a second D15
Series II and you will find it on our Allis Chalmers page.
We also just finished a one owner Allis WD-45 tractor for a
family in Ohio and posted a video of the finished tractor on
the video page.
Allis Chalmers D-15 restoration
Farmall 130 restoration
Our Current Ebay Auctions !!
We do
not offer financing but our webmaster is recommending
the Lending Club for personal and car loans. It is a
novel idea and certainly beats credit card rates. Here
is a link to their website.
They are currently giving lenders $25 for opening an account
so if you are now wanting a loan but looking for higher
interest check them out
We are
still looking for another Super MTA
Diesel to restore, we like to always have a couple on hand and we
are down to just one. There is a backlog of work to be done before we can even
think about getting out in the fields again but we have one
eye on the almanac. Look for some new videos, my web
guy wants me to get some more taken and we will soon. We did
put out a page with several videos and we will try and add
more.
Also check
out the video of the wide front Super MTA Diesel on the
Farmall page. This video was taken earlier in the year
but it gives you a detailed listing of the updates we
performed on this restoration.
2009 Canton
Friendship Festival
Owning a finely restored tractor rekindles the
memories of the people that worked on those machines during
the 50's and 60's. Browse through our website and enjoy the
sites and sounds of these old tractors, and rekindle a memory or
two.
Watch
our Tractor Video "Farming
in the 50's" in which we highlight several
of our tractors displayed with period equipment.
We got the video camera out again, watch the video of our 3
unusual prototype tractors:
"
3 tractors that were never made
"
Just click the link to the left to see our current Ebay
tractor auctions. Bob is selling his favorite Ford
Truck and we added it to the Truck page. It is a one
owner F350 Supercab Dually with towing package.
We have added some parts that we normally
have overstocked on the Allis and the Farmall page. It
will take us a few weeks to get them all added so bear with
us as we work through the kinks.
The tractors that you see on this site may be 50+
years old but they are in working condition and we take them
out once in a while to work the ground. Some of
the tractors that we have are rotated around our farm to plow, disk and
mow. We currently have over 50 tractors in
inventory, we think we have one of the finest selections around.
If you see a tractor on the site and would
like to see a video,
we can post video of any tractor listed but you will
need a fast connection and it takes at least 7 days for us
to get the video on the web site.
If you buy from us we
want you to be satisfied and we gladly will provide you with
a list of customers that have purchased one or more of our
fine tractors. We also have several pages with pictures of
tractors that we have sold, click
Sold
Tractors. Check it out, we get emails every week
from folks that recognize a friend or old acquaintance that
has purchased a tractor from us. When you see a tractor that you like on
the next page be sure and click on the tractor picture to
see additional images.
Thank you again for visiting our site.
|
Dick Chatterton 5117 E. Co. 17 Avon IL.61415
(309)465-3364 |
Bob Chatterton 1550
Tower Rd. Macomb IL61455 (309)833-5697 |
Hours:
M - F 8:00am - 5:00pm CST
Saturday by Appointment Only
Closed Sundays
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