Thursday, August 19, 2010

A Favorite Tractor - MM UDLX Comfortractor

Meet the 1938 Minneapolis-Moline Comfortractor. She is a beauty, even with her yellow-orange dress and red (or orange) shoes.

The farmer could work in the fields all week, then drive to town in comfort on the weekends. The UDLX was equipped with all the modern amenities - a fully enclosed, heated cabin with windows that open, cigarette lighter, a second seat for your tractor dog during the week, or the little lady on the weekend. You get a glove box, rear opening door, full raft of gauges, and slick coupe-like styling — well, as close as a tractor can get to a sedan. The top speed of this beast was rated at 45 mph so a bit slow, but definitely usable on rural roads. (jalopnik.com)



I would really like to own one of these babies. I'd be the big hit at the Legion Club uptown on Saturday night. Only 150 or so were made and they are highly coveted by collectors.

Mr. Flannery

6 comments:

DogpackMOMMA said...

Wow - that is so neat! I did not know there was such a thing.

red.neck chic said...

you DO realize that if you get one of those before I do that I WILL be "test driving" it right to the single-wide... right?

;-D I just printed that puppy out and stuck it to my "i gotta have this now" board.

:^D robelyn

Mr. Flannery said...

RNC - There are about 25 in existence. Sell for about $100,000.

Jaybird said...

My brother and his son would kill for one of those....you better duck!!

They do tractor pulls and their favorite competition is a family who drives antique MM tractors....even the girls are involved. They are a truly nice group!!

red.neck chic said...

I've gotta sell more pocketbooks then....

all for a tractor. LOL yeah, I would do that...

;-D robelyn

mo mule said...

My Father was a MM dealer in the 30's and he got a new UDLX from Moline and I have pictures of him sitting in it. The company floor planned it and after he did not have any luck selling it they transferred it to another MM dealer. How I wish now he had kept it, but money was hard to come by then. I was about 6 years old at that time, but I remember it well.