Found this beauty in a Ghost town outside Jerome, Arizona. Doodlebug tractor is the colloquial American English name for a home-made tractor made in the United States during World War II when production tractors were in short supply. The doodlebug of the 1940s was usually based on a 1920s or 1930s era Ford automobile which was then modified either by the complete removal or alteration of some of the vehicle body. This 1930 FORD Model A (Monkey-Ward) Kit Tractor 4-Door was bought new in Prescott by the Granite-Mountain Ranch and then wrecked by a teen age son May 1930 with only 100 miles on it. It has the original spark plygs with a cow proof Spark plug wires.
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Fabulous shot Peter. I didn't know about homemade tractors! I knew in Britain much production was handed over to war work, and the consequent shortages, but thought, perhaps naively, the at America would have missed such shortages
