The JD Dealer Laughed at His $75 Junk Tractor — What He Found Inside the Engine 16 Years Later Chang…

On a Saturday morning in April of 1969 at the Dawson County Equipment Auction in Lexington, Nebraska, a 22-year-old farmer named Dale Perkins made what everyone agreed was the stupidest purchase of the day. He paid $75 for a 1948 Farm AllM that hadn’t run in 17 years. The tractor sat at the far end of the auction lot, separated from the respectable equipment …