...I've previously shared photos here, of my 1:16th scale SpecCast 'Highly Detailed', 'Classic Series' Oliver Super 99 Diesel Tractor.
These two new diecast replicas, just in this week, are also from the SpecCast Classic Series line. They are the Oliver Super 77 and Super 88 tractors. Neither are modeled as diesel nor gasoline farm vehicles; they each are replicated as Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) powered. And they both are scale-configured as 'High-Crop' versions of the Oliver standard wide-front tractor.
Oliver's Super Series tractors were produced from 1954 through 1958. They were an update to the Oliver 'Fleetline' model series but built with an open-engine design. The Super 77 features a Waukesha-Oliver 3.5L 6-cyl LP-Gas engine while the Super 88 was equipped with a 4.3L 6-cyl LP-Gas power plant.
Both of these models were scarce in actual build-form due to the limited production of the LP models overall. And the High-Crop configuration was rare as well. So to feature both of these elemental designs makes these tractors very seldom seen in 1:1 scale. The Super Series tractors were initially made with green wheels between 1954 and 1956. But Oliver owners and future buyers preferred the previous Oliver's with their, now familiar, red wheels. They were outspoken to the manufacturer about this point and Oliver listened. For the balance of its production run, during 1957 and 1958, the wheel color was changed back to red. Farm tractor & implement dealers, meanwhile, had already begun re-painting the wheels red in advance of this new, and popular, decision in order to better appeal to the new tractor buyer.
The Super 77, shown here, depicts a 1957 or 1958 model year tractor with red wheels, while the Super 88 dates to 1954 through 1956 and hence, has the early-on green wheels. In the Super Series production run, other smaller models, the Super 55 and Super 66, were also made. And as history shows, for one year, between 1957 and 1958, the smallest Super Series tractor was built; the Super 44. Only 775 of them were produced in total. They all were Row-Crop tractors with Continental 2.3L 4-cyl gasoline engines.
These Oliver farm vehicles are still very popular to this day and sought out by the die hard 1:1 collector and diecast collectors of the 1:16th scale alike!
beautiful bright,vibrant imagery !!!!!.........I always bring a few of my pigs out to have a look whenever you post another of your marvelous 1/16 tractors.......how many does this make in your collection now Tony?
beautiful bright,vibrant imagery !!!!!.........I always bring a few of my pigs out to have a look whenever you post another of your marvelous 1/16 tractors.......how many does this make in your collection now Tony?
Thanks John! Sure hope the pigs liked what they saw. HA!
Numbers? I had to stop and count. 65. The majority being 1/16th John Deere. 14 being various brands, also 1/16th and a few 'other' scales.
beautiful bright,vibrant imagery !!!!!.........I always bring a few of my pigs out to have a look whenever you post another of your marvelous 1/16 tractors.......how many does this make in your collection now Tony?
Thanks John! Sure hope the pigs liked what they saw. HA!
Numbers? I had to stop and count. 65. The majority being 1/16th John Deere. 14 being various brands, also 1/16th and a few 'other' scales.
they`re being rather tight lipped as to what they saw Tony......as of yet,no one has squealed
............................65 tractors and nary a pig?......just to amuse yourself,and possibly scare the cat,have you ever laid out 16 of your 1/16 tractors,end to end........just to get an appreciation for the actual 1:1 size?
beautiful bright,vibrant imagery !!!!!.........I always bring a few of my pigs out to have a look whenever you post another of your marvelous 1/16 tractors.......how many does this make in your collection now Tony?
Thanks John! Sure hope the pigs liked what they saw. HA!
Numbers? I had to stop and count. 65. The majority being 1/16th John Deere. 14 being various brands, also 1/16th and a few 'other' scales.
they`re being rather tight lipped as to what they saw Tony......as of yet,no one has squealed
............................65 tractors and nary a pig?......just to amuse yourself,and possibly scare the cat,have you ever laid out 16 of your 1/16 tractors,end to end........just to get an appreciation for the actual 1:1 size?
'No one has squealed' - LOVE it. End to end would be a good exercise if all were the same series size. For example, a 1/16th 1950 Model G is wholly different than my largest 1/16th tractor the 8R 410.
beautiful bright,vibrant imagery !!!!!.........I always bring a few of my pigs out to have a look whenever you post another of your marvelous 1/16 tractors.......how many does this make in your collection now Tony?
Thanks John! Sure hope the pigs liked what they saw. HA!
Numbers? I had to stop and count. 65. The majority being 1/16th John Deere. 14 being various brands, also 1/16th and a few 'other' scales.
they`re being rather tight lipped as to what they saw Tony......as of yet,no one has squealed
............................65 tractors and nary a pig?......just to amuse yourself,and possibly scare the cat,have you ever laid out 16 of your 1/16 tractors,end to end........just to get an appreciation for the actual 1:1 size?
'No one has squealed' - LOVE it. End to end would be a good exercise if all were the same series size. For example, a 1/16th 1950 Model G is wholly different than my largest 1/16th tractor the 8R 410.
The 1950 G Hi-Crop:
The 2019 8R 410:
Ya might hav`ta move several pieces of furniture before beginning in earnest Tony..........and take the doilies off the chair arms until you`ve finished
Ya might hav`ta move several pieces of furniture before beginning in earnest Tony..........and take the doilies off the chair arms until you`ve finished
I was OK with all of that until you mentioned the removal of the doilies! Sorry; no can do. Unfortunately, around here, that's a capital offense!
