Antique Tractor Display

RFD-TV Tractor Tales continue with this fun coincidence:
Donald Holdway of Springfield, Mo., was at RFD-TV The Theatre in Branson, enjoying a look at the tractors on display. Suddenly,
he stood stock still and stared.


That Minneapolis Moline Z! It just looked soooooo familiar!
Could it be? It was! Holdway concluded that the tractor was the
same one his father, Hollis Holdway, bought new in 1951 in
Dallas County, Mo.


He used it and then sold it at auction in December 1963 to a farmer north of Fair Grove, Mo., who kept it for 39 years. Then he sold it to Ed and Lois Little of Kirbyville, Mo., who restored it. They had owned it for five years, and had it out for display in
Branson.

Holdway recalled that his father drilled holes in the fender to add a platform so that the kids wouldn’t fall off. He remembered plowing
corn with that tractor in his youth. He believes the tractor has
its original front tires.

Immediately, Holdway contacted the Littles and arranged to buy the tractor. So now it’s back “home,” Holdway is a happy man, and
RFD-TV is happy to have been the homecoming “matchmaker.”