A different "look what followed me home"

[Paul B]

These followed me home from Evansville, IN this morning. The red and yellow Sunflower sign is one sided, never been hooked up. It is for Sunflower Tillage Equipment, built in Beloit, KS, and has been part of AGCO since 2002. It is not the same as the Sunflower Co. in Olathe, KS that made the reel mowers for Cub and Cub Cadets. The Cub Cadet/MTD sign is just the sign skins, no frame, and there 2 of them and they appear to be unused.

It is the two signs between these that I was after, but it was all five for one money, so........

The last one is kinda rare I believe, since the CCC emblem wasn't used for too long, but I may be wrong. Both it and the IH sign are two sided.

[vince_o]

Paul

What in the world will you do with all them signs? You opening a mower training field combined with a dove field or something

[Paul B]

Vince,
You are the second person to ask me what I'm going to do with them, and as I told her, I don't know, but they were too good to pass up...........

[jchabot]

I don't think I've actually seen a CCC lighted sign before. Wasn't that a first year only thing?

[Paul B]

I don't know Jim, I don't think I have ever seen one either. According to Hank's book, the red and black CCC emblem/logo was "retired" by 1987, so I guess it was used from the CCC beginning in late 1981, thru 1986. If that logo was retired I supposed, or would assume, the signs were changed then also.

[Farmallgray]

Paul,
I'm not sure if the CCC emblem was even used that long. I didn't think they started using it till after the IH ag line was sold to Tenneco. Before that CCC sold the tractors to IH who then sold them to the dealers. So I'm pretty sure tractors built between 81 and 85 still used IH emblems.

So that means it was only used for maybe 2 years.

[ksanders]

I saw those and it was a killer deal. I thought about going after them Thursday, but then I thought... they're too valuable and rare to hang outside, wouldn't look right on a wall, and really big to store and let sit. For once reasoning won... besides, look like they went to the perfect place .

[Paul B]

Todd,
I don't know, I was just going by Hank's book and he says the CCC first series (81-85) used the IH on headlight panel and rear of fender pan the red tractors, and the CCC in the same places on the CCC (yellow/white) tractors.Either way it wasn't long, and I have never seen one of those signs.

[A.W.Gonya]

Paul,

Awesome find! The power lawn products is especially cool!

I'm going to have to start watching, I'd love to hang something like that on the (inside) barn wall someday!

[jallen]

Paul nice find on the sighns i have one of the ccc sighns that i bought from a closed down dealer in NC she closed the doors in 92 but it looked as if was never hung it was 2 sided and had a extra sighn front with it all for $10.00 could not beat the price

[rweaver]

I have seen maybe 2 of those ccc signs but you dont see to many I have seen alot more of the ih ones for sure

[rgausman]

Paul,

What a great find. Take good care of them.

Any one who watchs 'American Picker' on TV will wish they picked the old signage years ago when there was not much of a market. I am amazed what the old rusty gasoline/oil sign fetch for collectors.

Bob G.