We are talking about having an "open house" at the dealership next year. A local collector has pretty much one of every IH Cub Cadet produced. He might bring up several to display, I will bring my cub ect. Whether MTD does anything is anybody guess, but in the past when I went to the ihregistry sponsered PA plow days, they have send nice "care packages" of mint vintage IH Cub Cadet advertising from thier warehouse to give away as door prizes. So someone does still care about the older ones out there, even if they would rather sell a new one, the old ones still working keep the name in the public eye. A 3000 series GT, which is about as small as one can go and still have ground engaging ablities, is around $8K or so depending on options. They are nice, but I would spend a couple more $K and go up to the SC2400 Cub Cadet/Yanmar SCUT. Its a SGT on roids! So far our rep hasnt heard anything about next year, or atleast that he can tell us lol! I will say that many of our customers that have a new MTD built CC grass cutter tractor, also have a vintage IH machine that normaly the mower deck has rotted away, but they keep the old one for chores/garden work/winter snow removal. They use the newer MTD built one to cut grass, which they do much better than the older cub decks. Now if we could fit one of these newer decks with better air flow and gator blades on a IH cub and keep the blade tip speed up, that would be grand! Cheers Mikie