TRANSATLANTIC TRACTORS AND OVERSEAS ODDITIES

Dean McCloskey is an operations supervisor in an airport near where he lives in Indiana, US. When it comes to tractors Dean has extremely cosmopolitan tastes. Tractors from all over the world fascinate him and his collection reflects this global outlook on the hobby.

Unusual

Dean, his father Allen aged 87 and his son Cole aged 15 are a family of fully fledged tractor collectors, and together they own a wide variety of unusual and interesting tractors. It was Dean’s father who actually began the collection in the late Fifties. Today the family’s passion has become finely tuned, and the three enthusiasts try to hunt out the lesser-known makes of vintage and classic tractors. “Nowadays we strive to get ‘off brand’ tractors, and foreign tractors that are not common in the States,” says Dean.

Dean finds British tractor collections highly interesting to read about, as they often feature tractors rarely seen in the US. “There are only so many articles a person can read about John Deere and International tractors before they begin to feel unwell,” laughs Dean, suggesting