There are Ford tractors. Why not a Chevy tractor?
Knowing GM, if Chevy made a tractor they would’ve used the same off-the-shelf parts they use for everything else. The only difference between a Chevy truck and a GMC (besides the additional $1500+ for GMC) is the rebadging & trim. Firebird/Camaro. Cavalier/Sunbird/Skylark/or load down the anemic 88hp with heavy accessories and call it a Cadillac Cimarron.
Note: It’s a shame Generic Motors ever got their grubby little hands on “Cadillac”.
So if Chevrolet went into the tractor business, building four-wheeled work-horses from their already existing pile of schtock – unlike the two-wheeled tractors made by Harley – they might’ve looked something like this:
Okay. Maybe not. But it’s what it’d look like if I built it from my GM parts. ;-)
I had been saving these parts from the donor vehicle when I put the later model running gear under Rex and had started cutting and mounting these leftovers yesterday:
You’ll notice by the time I took this pic, that I had already cut the fenders some & narrowed the grill support.
But the picture in my head just wasn’t making it to “sheetmetal reality”. I walked away from it considering my options and sending them out to a couple of people. Sometimes just “thinking out loud” can help a process and I decided to go back at it today, lowering the “body” as much as I could get away with without incurring major clearance issues.
There’s obviously still a lot left to be done with the sheet-metal (firewall, dash, etc) and I’ve still got to get the 2nd tranny in. One day at a time.
More pics are available in The Tractor Gallery
