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Florida Flywheelers Parade
Featuring Allis Chalmers - A Gathering of the Orange

Each Florida Flywheelers show features a tractor or equipment manufacturer. Back in Feb. 2001, the featured tractor was Allis Chalmers, which is typically painted orange. - I thought they should have called it "Allis in Wunderland", but no one asked me. Our parade takes place every day of the show around 10:30AM for antique cars and trucks and again at 2PM for antique tractors and farm equipment ... or whenever we can get everybody lined up. You are liable to see most anything that moves too, not just the feature. Take a look at the pix below for a sampling of our parade participants.

Our honorary parade marshall is Earl Galloway with his beloved chihuahua, Dinky. Earl was at the Florida Flywheelers most weekends as he lived only 10 miles away. He gave a helping hand whenever needed, and was the source of many jokes and lots of laughs around the campfire on cold evenings. Earl left us to go to the park in the sky this July, not long after Dinky, so they are together now waiting for our parades in heaven. -- We miss you Earl!
Since I am no expert on antique farm equipment, I will simply arrange the photos from here on in, leaving you, the visitor, to ponder the many kinds and conditions of farm equipment that there is in the loving hands of collectors.

A miniature Allis grove tractor.

More Allis Chalmers tractors.

Half and Half = half Deere half Allis tractor followed by a half Allis half Deere tractor.

If you click on the small logo of the Allis Chalmers, you will see more of our parade.