The July/August 2020 issue of Antique Power magazine will be available in subscriber mailboxes and on newsstands now. Our latest cover tractor is a 1951 Minneapolis-Moline Model ZAE owned by Alan Johnson. This feature is written and photographed by Candace Brown.

For years, Alan Johnson believed his father’s 1951 Minneapolis-Moline Co. Model Z was long gone. Then, one day during the winter of 2011–12, his sister Carol Andreen phoned with some news. Their father’s tractor had suddenly reappeared. Apparently, after a new owner bought their parents’ former property near Thermopolis, Wyoming, the tractor had remained in a shed some distance from the house. The buyer finally wanted it removed. Johnson, who now lives in Montana, was both stunned and happy.