NEW ISSUE: The January/February 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 the Fred family’s 1941 CO-OP Model B-2 Junior. text by Eli Fred • photos by James Fred

“The Tractor That Started It All”

A 1941 CO-OP Model B-2 Junior tractor has become a treasure to the Fred family.

My grandfather Lavon Fred bought our 1941 CO-OP Model B-2 Junior tractor back in 1983 from a salvage yard near Delphi, Indiana. He restored it a year later. I remember the B-2 Junior always being around the farm in Grandpa’s antique tractor collection. It was one of his favorites and was a reliable, smooth-running tractor. This was one of Grandpa’s first antique tractor purchases and restorations, and it gave him the bug to continue collecting lesser-known tractors.