TOM H. - HA-HA.... sad but true about the elec. lifts. I "Borrowed" Dad's CC #70 to mow once when they were on vacation. Because of that I started looking for MY first CC in about 1980, there was an auction in residential Moline, IL with a 147 & 105 CC if I remember right. Each had a mower, and I think there might have been a frt blade but no tiller or snow blower. There was a box next to the tractors with misc. belts, brackets, chains, manuals, and TWO elec. lift actuators due to the failure of the elec. lift on the 147.
It was kinda odd, both tractors sold WAY over what I thought they were worth. The local Moline classified ads would always have 5-6 green tractors less than 2-3 yrs old for sale, all the local JD employees got a hefty discount on them but they would be listed for almost retail price. I kept looking for SIX more months before I found my 72. I think it was a bargain.... $365 for a 13 yr old tractor just over 31 years ago.