very true... sad, but true.

IH sold a lot of incomplete chassis to vendors that finished them I have a harlo 560 forklift made from a mix of standard and farmall 560 parts and I even have the harlo IH service and parts manuals. On the serial numbers when IH sold these chassis I think they started the serial numbers at 501 I have seen a chrimsom ryder bean picker super c in ny with serial no 501 and seen a few since that had higher numbers but they always had a suffex or prefix code as well and to know what those are you needed the info from the one book which I at one time had but since sold Before I was a cub cadet salvage yard I was a farmall salvage yard and saw some neat stuff In my mind IH was the best built stuff bar none