1/32 John Deere 8020 "80th Anniversary" Prestige Collection Tractor Toy - LP86731

1/32 John Deere 8020 "80th Anniversary" Prestige Collection Tractor Toy - LP86731. 80th Anniversary Model 8020.

1945-2025.

One-time production. 

*Available while supplies last.*

Designed to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the ERTL Company. Tractor is constructed with die-cast bodies. Configured with front and rear singles. Fixed to commemorative display base with ERTL 80th logo engraved insert. Packaged in special ERTL 80th anniversary display box. Fred Ertl Sr. began making toy tractors in the furnace of his home, in 1945. He was a journeyman molder at a Dubuque firm that was temporarily idled by a strike. With a wife and five sons to support, he started taking defective aluminum aircraft pistons and melting them down. He poured this aluminum into sand molds, and started making toy tractors. By 1946, the basement wasn't big enough, so the business moved to a 1,040 square foot building in Dubuque and in 1947, Ertl was incorporated and moved into a larger 11,000 square foot building. In 1959, Ertl built a larger facility in Dyersville, IA and moved all production there.  By 1980, Ertl was producing close to one million die-cast farm equipment items per year. In the last 15 years, Ertl-now owned by TOMY, Inc. - has produced over 100 million tractors and implements to delight kids and collectors throughout the world.

Measures approximately: 7" x 3" x 3.5".

Age grade: 14+.

Die-Cast Replica.

Made of some plastic parts.

This is a Licensed John Deere Product.