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SelectOSpeed    Posted 04-23-2016 at 07:33:52 [URL] [DELETE]        [Reply] [Email]  
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  • This may have been discussed before, but its something I've always wanted to post. My fascination with Ford tractors began at a very early age, so extensive that I looked for them everywhere I went, plus on television, magazines, books, and movies. The following is a listing of where I have noticed Ford Tractors on screen over the years starting with my earliest recollection. The Real McCoys, a Model 850 which was in many episodes. Green Acres...the venerable Fordson which was renamed "Hoyt-Claxton" in the show, plus the new Commander 6000 with a cab that was mistakingly delivered to Mr.Ziffel.It is interesting to note that in the opening sequence of the show,Mr Douglas drives up on a John Deere GP. I have always surmised that since FoMoCo furnished vehicles for the show, the Fordson replaced the JD. The detective show Cannon had an episode in which a late model 4000 can be seen grading a horse racetrack. A "Killer Bee" movie that begins with a man on a 640 trying to pull a stump with the Bees hanging out in a tree overhead. That didn't work out good for him. Walking Tall...Buford takes the family on a picnic driving a 640 PAINTED BLUE AND DECALED FORD 2000 !! A CRIME BUFORD!!...Of course the 8N in Son In Law. The A Cappella group Home Free has two videos with a 971D SOS, WooHoo ! The book "Iron Fist" the story of Carl Kiekhaffer, at the end of the last chapter, has a pic of Carl Bush Hogging with a a 801D. These are the ones that stick in my mind the most. How about you guys? I'm sure I've forgotten others. FWIW. SoS.

    Amateur Mechanic    Posted 04-07-2017 at 14:33:15 [URL] [DELETE]        [Reply] [Email]  
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  • Summer stock with Judy Garland on a Ford Tractor - Andy Griffin Show

    Tim Daley(MI)    Posted 01-18-2017 at 15:40:14 [URL] [DELETE]        [Reply] [No Email]  
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  • S-O-S ...

    Scroll down or click on the LINK below to get to my post on Ford Tractors in TV and movies...since then, there have been others spotted but not added here.

    Tim Daley(MI)

    Ed Gooding (VA)    Posted 04-25-2016 at 06:16:15 [URL] [DELETE]        [Reply] [Email]  
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  • A recent cable show titled "Amish Mafia" frequently had a nice looking 9N in the background while the Amish guys were collaborating on things.

    Gaspump    Posted 04-25-2016 at 09:40:04 [URL] [DELETE]        [Reply] [No Email]  
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  • Film Flam Man had a chase scene where a wagonload of watermelons pulled by an 8N was hit.

    Don B.    Posted 06-28-2016 at 05:22:25 [URL] [DELETE]        [Reply] [Email]  
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  • 'The Flim Flam Man', that was on Saturday evening on TCM, I saw the 8N in the middle of the road, had stay bars on the back.
    there was a movie called 'The Young Widow' showing a closeup of Jane Russell driving either a 9N or 2N, the year of the movie was 1946 and all you could see really was a close up of her driving it so couldn't tell the year of it, I knew by looking at the battery cover.

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