Allison Team question April 12, 2022 02:15PM
I believe Doug Bend has one of the Allison Team tractors (I assume the one driven by Bob Bend).

Whatever happened to it's identical twin driven by Fred Mende? Is it in a barn somewhere? Parted Out?
Just curious.
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Re: Allison Team question April 12, 2022 03:03PM
Here is an article that you might want to read but it's not an answer to your question.

[ntpapull.com]
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Re: Allison Team question April 13, 2022 02:09AM
Not to get off topic but my father in law has a 1/16 replica of Bends Allison tractor does anyone know how many of those were made? I have never seen another one but he claims that the auction had two the one he bought was out of the box the other came with the original box.
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Re: Allison Team question April 22, 2022 01:53PM
There were 400 of the 1/16 scale Allison Team tractors made and 750 1/64th scale.
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Re: Allison Team question April 13, 2022 08:22AM
The G1000 Allison is restored and lives in the Amboy IL area
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Re: Allison Team question April 13, 2022 08:48AM
Isn't that Bill Newlon's tractor.
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Re: Allison Team question April 13, 2022 09:35AM
Yes that would be the old Bill Newlon Tractor
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Re: Allison Team question April 13, 2022 09:56AM
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Yes that would be the old Bill Newlon Tractor

Bill Newlon has nothing to do with the Allison Team tractors. Both were from Illinois and both ran MM sheet metal, but two different teams.
As you said, Newlon ran G-1000 sheet metal.

The two Allison Team tractors ran UB sheet metal (except in 1969 for one of them). Both looked nearly identical. I'm asking about the 2nd UB tractor.
Doug Bend has restored and pulled one of them. My question is whatever became of the other one.




Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 04/13/2022 09:57AM by The Original Michael.
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Re: Allison Team question April 13, 2022 11:28AM
The 1985 NTPA story says the Bend family has one UB and that the other UB thats shown yearly at Bowling Green is at Harold Bostons place..Harold Boston passed in 2007 but surely the 2nd tractor is still around??
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Re: Allison Team question April 17, 2022 03:34AM
Just got off the phone with Fred Mende who is an original member of the Allison Team. The second Allison tractor is in a barn at Bill Wade's at Waterman, Illinois. Bill was also an original member of the Team and as Fred said was the Brains and the machinist behind the Allison Team.


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