Spoker D drawing July 16

PENFIELD, Ill. — Tickets are selling quickly for the 1925 John Deere Spoker D tractor and the 1965 John Deere 110 lawn mower drawings by the I & I Antique Tractor and Gas Engine Club.

John Deere is the featured brand for Historic Farm Days July 13-16 that will also observe the 100th anniversary of the John Deere D tractor and E engine.

The drawing will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, July 16, as the show wraps up.

“We have sold somewhere around 250 tickets so far. We still have some to sell,” Ed Winkleman, an I & I director, said in early June.

Winkelman, of Armstrong, heads the Friends of Deere Club and is involved in the planning and promoting of this year’s featured brand.

Winkelman started collecting historic John Deere tractors in 1980 when he purchased a 1937 tractor.

He’s since accumulated about 20 class John Deeres and has personally restored about 70 tractors over the years.

Proceeds from the drawing support the I & I Antique Tractor and Gas Engine Club.

The first 50 Model Ds were built by John Deere in 1923. All models from 1923 to 1925 had the spoked flywheel and become known as the Spoker Ds.

The first D with a solid flywheel left the factory in early 1926, the same year the two-speed transmission was introduced.

The Model D was in production from 1923 to 1953, longer than any other tractor model.