Welcome to Antique-Tractor.com!

I am pleased to announce the launch of Antique-Tractor.com.   For years content at ATIS has accumulated to the point it is difficult to manage and search. The last few years have also seen promising technologies that we haven't had the chance to take advantage of. This wealth of data and some new technologies have brought ATIS to the point it is now time to spin off the content/information side of the site to antique-tractor.com Likewise, we will be doing the same for stationary-engine.com. While we are far from finished, there is much new here and many exciting things in the near future.

ATIS has aleways been a group of men and women I am proud to be associated with. As many of you know, ATIS has been a round for a long time and is the gold standard by which all the others are judged.  We are the oldest, the largest, and the least commercialized. Through the years we have resisted the urge to "make it big" on the Internet, thankfully avoiding the process of selling out the values our tractors stand for and represent. In other words, some things are sacred and shouldn't be trespassed lightly and the heritage and tradition of American agriculture is one of them.

The memories of the men and women, our forebears, who operated this equipment when it was new deserve to know, wherever they are, that we "get it". It is exactly that small gesture of respect we are required to give and ATIS members give that respect everyday.

Join us will you?  For 10 years ATIS has thrived and grown, been responsible for 4 books, assembled national gatherings, promoted face to face meetings, raised nearly $30,000 for charity, and assembled the largest volume of data about tractors on the Internet. Help us to continue to build our corner of the Internet in an image we can be proud of. We must if we are to make peace with our ancestors.

I hope you enjoy using Antique-Tractor.com, Stationary-Engine.com and ATIS.net.   There are labors of love of mine and have put my heart and soul into them.

Spencer Yost

Stayed tuned. Improvements will take a while but they will come.
North Carolina