Thanks guys. About that original, I too noticed it had a pull start when I found the picture. I asked my Grandpa about that, (he's still alive in his 90's and still pretty sharp), and he told me that's what it had when he bought it. He later took it back to the dealer and had them install the electric start, which is what I remember it having. He said it was too hard for my Grandma to pull the starter.
I really would like to find out what happened to it. When he sold it in the late 70's, the local IH dealer was really hot to trot after it, they said the serial # was the lowest they knew about and it was one of the first built. My Grandpa bought it new in he thinks early '61 at a dealer here in the Chicago area. The IH dealer restored it and it sat on their showroom floor till the mid 90's when they went out of business. I don't know what became of it after that.
Bob
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