May/June 2022 Antique Power
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The May/June 2022 issue of Antique Power magazine is available in our gift shop and will be available in subscriber mailboxes and on newsstands soon. This issue features Art Miller’s beautifully restored 1929 Advance-Rumely OilPull Model X. text by Candace Brown • photos by Brad Bowling
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Art Miller’s beautifully restored 1929 Advance-Rumely OilPull Model X is one of the last of the OilPulls.
When Art Miller takes his 1929 Advance-Rumely OilPull tractor to shows, he gives people a chance to see something rare. This 25-40 Model X was one of about 2,400 built of a rapidly declining production. In 1928, 1,545 left the factory in La Porte, Indiana, but that number dropped to 713 in 1929, when Miller’s, with serial no. X2192, was made. In 1930, the company produced only 140. Some of the early Model X tractors were converted from the preceding 20-35 Model Ms.
In addition to representing how changing consumer demands and the Great Depression impacted the industry, the story of Miller’s OilPull also illustrates a couple of truths about the antique tractor hobby; collecting antique tractors is not something you “get over,” and just looking at a tractor that reminds you of your past can bring back good memories, whether you originally owned that particular one or not.
Miller’s family has a long history in the Kansas City, Kansas, area. His parents owned a dairy farm, where he and his brother Larry, just a year older, learned to operate tractors at about the age of eight. During the 1950s, their father also started doing soil conservation work, so the boys were only 11 and 12 when they learned to operate dozers as well as farm equipment.
“My brother didn’t like running the dozers, so I ran those,” Miller said. “Larry did the milking and fed the cows.”
To read more about the 25-40 Model X pick up a copy of the May/June 2022 issue of Antique Power magazine!
Other articles in this issue include:
Understanding the Case 60
A prairie-sized Case 30-60 tractor accompanies the many great exhibits at the Ederville pioneer facility in North Carolina.
text by Rick MannenWe Found it in Iowa.
The Reed brothers’ restoration of their 1933 Massey-Harris Model 25 maintains the great tradition of Wallis and Massey-Harris.
text by Rick Mannen • photos by Al RogersSuper-Powered Rumely
Art Miller’s beautifully restored 1929 Advance-Rumely OilPull Model X is one of the last of the OilPulls.
text by Candace Brown • photos by Brad BowlingA Postwar Marvel
This 1948 International Harvester Farmall C owned by Bob Conley is all set up and ready to go for checkrow planting!
text by Robert Gabrick • photos by Al RogersA Stitch in Time
Cold repair for broken cast iron
text by Rick MannenFrom the Editor
Letters to the Editor
The Canada Connection Hands-On Learning at the Manitoba Tractor School
Photos from the Attic
The Book Shed
Classifieds
Show Guide
Tractor Show Readers show off their favorites
Tech Tips Splittin’ Contest
Of Grease & Chaff Two Hammers and the Eternal Cactus
Gallery photo by Hyatt Sudano
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