I am thinking about cleaning out a few projects I will never get to.  I have about 15 tractors that could go, some need alot of work, some not too much.  I was thinking about organizing a parts tractor auction, I wonder if anyone would come?  I'd like to get several other people together to thin out their collections at the same time (get 100+ parts tractors).  Maybe a better idea would be a parts tractor swap, like they do with hockey equipment, but on a larger, heavier scale.  I have been disappointed by most "swap meets" where most of the stuff is flea market crap.  Do you think the idea would catch on?

If you have a lot of parts tractors at an auction, the primary buyers will be the scrap metal dealers.

Part of the problem with parts tractors is that there are fewer buyers. You have to find someone that needs some of the parts and in most cases it is a parts tractor because the most needed parts are usually already gone.

could possibly work if it was for one brand of tractor.  Give you a better chance of having people buy parts tractors that they don't have an immediate need for but can see some future possible need.

I suppose you're right.  Maybe it's best if I just hang onto them.  Most are actually complete and would make good projects, every now and then I see someone advertise that they are looking for something that I have and one goes to a new home.  I just need to free up some space so I can find something else to fill it

I would try an ad in Antique Power. You just might move a few of them with winter coming on (more shop time for most folks).

I this month's Green Magazine talks about a collector who sold his lot of tractors to Mcgrew Tractor.

Try posting an ad on Smokestak. That site gets a lot of traffic.

Dave