Rare "Golf Cart" Tractor

Rare "Golf Cart" Tractor TRACTORS Miscellaneous 26-6-44 Not many people know that back in the 1960's, Deere offered a kit to convert its 110 garden tractor into a two-seat golf cart. Don Willson owns one and had it on display at the recent Ohio Farm Science Review Show. "I take it to farm shows and antique tractor shows where it always draws a lot of attention. People often stop and ask if I made it myself," says Willson. The bolt-on, one-piece kit consists of a fiberglass body and two padded seats. The tractor's original seat and rear fenders have to be removed, and the rear wheels turned around, in order to install the kit. "Initiallly the golf cart body was painted white, but since I'm a Deere man I had to paint it green," says Willson, who is a member of the Ohio Deere Two-Cylinder Club. According to Willson, Deere offered the golf cart kit for only a short time during the mid 1960s. At that time, he was working for a Deere dealer who used the tractor to drive customers out around his lot. After a while the novelty of the golf cart wore off so the dealer removed the kit and stored it in an attic. It stayed there for a long time before Willson offered to buy it from the dealer. That was about 20 years ago. "The kit was made by a Michigan company, which also offered a model to fit Cub Cadet tractors," says Willson. "Deere advertised that you could use your garden tractor to mow your yard and also to go golfing. They stopped selling the kit many years ago and it's no longer available. I don't know how much it cost. I only know of two other golf cart tractors in existence." Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Don Willson, 2237 Co. Hwy. 47, Nevada, Ohio 44849 (ph 740 482-2506).

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