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Seaton Power Show

On June 22, the Annual Seaton Power Show made the little hamlet 9 miles south of Aledo and 10 1/2 miles West of Burgess,  the place to be.  Apparently no one else got the memo, however.  Since I was out cruising the area and having to see an old neighbor I was one of a handful of people who looked at the cars, trucks and   farm implements lined up around the square.



The Power Show has been going on for awhile now and I could only hope that the rush of spectators was either before or after I stopped by.  It was really a nice little display of area antiques.  The car above is a nicely restored old delivery truck.  Restored by Jerry Slagel, this is a 1931 Model A.  The top is black canvas and the wood sides makes this a pretty valuable item.



A nice 1925 Ford.  It may look unrestored but it likely is.  Henry Ford was famous for having said customers could get any color they wanted, as long as it was black.   


A restored John Deere utility tractor.


Beautiful 1958 Ford Powermaster 801.  



Unrestored 1954 International Harvester Super H.  This one looks like it still gets out in the fields.  



This type of Ford mini-tractor was a favorite with farmers for utility jobs, like snow removal and mowing fence lines.  




One of Seaton's fire trucks, this is an early '70's Ford F-880.  




Typical IH M Series tractor.  What was interesting about this series was IH hired Raymond Loewy to give it a pleasing streamlined look.  He also was chief designer of at Studebaker for awhile and designed some beautiful models there.



This series Farmall was built between 1932 and 1939 and marked the change to red paint from gray.




An old 1931 McCormick-Deering. 

When I started working for Uncle Ed on the farm he had a nice powerful Minneapolis-Moline tractor.  They were painted yellow.  I forget now the number series.  They were affectionately called Mini-Mo's and were bought out by White in 1963 and the name was dropped in 1974.  Below is what Ed's tractor looked a lot like.


(Not my picture)

He also had a little Massey Ferguson he always called the Ford.  We mowed with this tractor or did odd jobs with it.  

 (Not my picture)

It was a nice little show and I hope there were people who went before or after I did.  You have to hand it to a little town to try something like this.  Nice looking machinery and a smattering of cars that you won't see at car shows.  Some folks just don't do the car show thing.  Kenny Lumberry never went to car shows with his nice purple Dodge.  I'm sure he would have walked away with a trophy once in a while, but he said he shouldn't pay folks to display his car, but thet they should pay him.  Well, Kenny, bless his heart, he was wrong about that, but there are a lot of guys who feel the same way.  I never considered a nominal entry fee to display my car to be unreasonable.  There are trophies to buy, fliers to make, and other incidentals to procure.  Besides,  relaxing in a lawn chair bragging up your car, and talking to friends isn't a bad way to spend an afternoon.  

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