Getting FUNKY in North Wales
I could write a book about Steve Watts’ wonderful tractor collection, but today I’ve just come to look at one little grey tractor. From a distance it looks rather ordinary, but it is actually, on closer inspection, probably one of the biggest oddities in the Watts stable. It’s not a Ferguson, which is what one would expect to see here in the U.K.: No, it’s a Ford 9N with a Funk conversion, and it is only when Steve fires up the little Ford tractor that I realise replacing a roughly 20hp engine with a 95hp one was actually quite a crazy thing to do. However crazy an idea it was, it worked – well, mostly.
Curious conversions and fascinating versions make excellent fodder for those tractor enthusiasts who want something a little more unusual in their collections, and the Ford Funk conversion is, on British soil at least, a rarely seen little gem. I was lucky to find one of these curiosities in Steve’s collection, just an hour’s drive from where I live in North Wales.
As rare as hen’s teeth
Steve heard about the Ford Funk in
