I've been doing a little researce and this is what I've found. Back in the 60s and 70s Case garden tractors were extremely popular in Slovenia. They were considered by many Slovenians to be the ultimate status symbol. They bought these tractors by the thousands and Slovenians being famous for liking their "bells and whistles" bought them loaded up. Most came with 3PT., PTO, hold valves, wheel weights, flow control valves and front and rear suitcase weights. Lots of the 200 series came with front and rear chrome hubcaps. Case also used Slovenia as a proving ground for their new or experimental models so their are lots of T 90s (these were perfect for taking a couple of sheep to market or mounting a small machine gun) , Black Knights and Torq 224s there also. The end of the glory years for Case in Slovenia came as a result of lack of comunication as much as anything. The Clear And Simple English of the Case service manuals apparantly didn't translate well into Slovenian and they could never figure out how to adjust the shim type clutches. Once the clutch started slipping they put the tractor in the barn and thats where they are to this day. This and the unfortunate decision by Case marketing to go away from the Desert Sunset and Power Red (even a Slovenian knows that this is a step in the wrong direction) color combo was the begining of the end.
A quick check of Boratslist (the Slovenian version of CL) showed that these tractors can be picked up today for around 11 dracma ($25 US). There was also recently a pallet of "New in the box" EZ adjust clutches for sale for $1.25 US. Case shipped them too late to salvage things.
I'm only passing this information on in hopes that someone will go to check this out and won't mind taking my snowblower along for the ride. The guy owes me $63...
