This is the first time you see my name here altough I've been following the site and this forum sinds day one. Actually did a couple of posts and comments under the name DR. Dexta in the past. I really enjoy reading it and seeing how people help eachother with problems and questions around the world. In my oppinion this is what internet is really about...
A couple of weeks ago I finished restoring my 1960 Dexta after a restoration that took me 11 years.. (!) . I'm 23 years old now and my whole life has been about tractors and especially the bleu ones. During my dayjob I drive the New Holland T7000 and T8000 serie's tractors but I've always got a special place for the old bleu pioneers, because thats what they were in this area back in the days. A lot of farmers including my grandfather traded in there horse or grumpy Lanz Bulldog for a Dexta or a MF 35. Being 11 years of age I bought my first Dexta after mowing lot's of lawns and washing lots of cars! This was a '63 new performance with a broken clutch and it turned out to be a easy fix! But this was not what I wanted because I wanted the first and oldest model to restore so I sold this one to my dad for use around the house. A couple of months later I found my tractor sitting in the back of a local sawmill. It had been standing there for years after spending his life working in the 'Noordoostpolder' (the drylands..) and after that doing some forrestrywork for the sawmill. It looked like a mess, being covered in sawdust and what more, but is was pretty original and after fitting a battery she started in seconds! Love at first sight.. I took it home and started taking her apart bit by bit. Having no mechanical experience I was lucky enough to have some experienced people close to me, and ofcourse a good parts list with all the drawings! Looking back I must conclude that I've never found a schoolbook that tought me as much a restoring an old tractor... The one thing that I always wanted to achieve was to keep this tractor a original as possible and never to cut any corners achieving that goal. Now you see where the 11 years come from
The best tool I had during this restoration was patience! to make a long story short, I took her apart from the front axle to the rear axle and everything in between and brought it back into a new condition. I've had her painted 2 years ago and started rebuilding up until 3 weeks ago and this is the result. Although modesty is one of a persons best quality's in my opinion I must say I'm pretty proud of myself.. 
I put her on new Good year tyres with the original 400-19's rims on the front wich aren't of much use in a heavy field but gives her a nice old look. The back rims are fitted with the original rearwheel weights wich I was lucky enough to run into. I actually got the full 6 ring set but fitting them all didn't look really nice with the narrow frontwheels. In the back there's the swinging drawbar, the pto shields, the licenseplatelight and the vertical drawbar stoppers with the chain and safetybadge. I fitted a brand new original wiring loom wich I found on the shelf of a local tractor garage, and I use the original horn to anoy the neighbours I eaven found the original crank handle. Boy was I happy when I found the magic word 'ENFO' on it. I tried to crank the tractor but I'm afraid I have to do some more powerlifting to get the tractor running that way.. 
On the front of the nose you see the 'Greve NV Emmeloord' dealer badge. This was actually the oldest Ford NH dealership in Holland. To bad that they changed to John Deere a couple of years ago. Ofcourse I didn't manage to do everything by the book. For example you can see the holes in the hood. Thats because it came of a '62 model because the original one was broken. The holes is something the painter should have taken care of but didn't do. So after these pictures i filled them up with really small round headed bolts wich actually gave a nice result. I drove the tractor a couple of times now an I think I know the feeling all those farmers had in the '50's and '60 when they got their brandnew Dexta. Where going to the 'oldtimerdag Ruinerwold' on the 16th of august with this one and some of her bleu and green friends. I'm really looking forward to that. It's hard to tell the whole story all at once so I let the pictures do the rest. I really hope you guys enjoy them and feel free to comment! Keep up the good work!Greetings from Holland, Joris van der Linde
PS: Sorry for the big photosize, thats something I couldn't fix right now..
and a lot of us here feel inadequate!!!!!!! 
WOW. Well done young Man. She is acredit to you and your dedication.
