There are parts on the floor, fresh grills on the walls and dusty manuals ready to provide insight on the shelf. And Stewart Paquette couldn't be happier.

Most of the tractors were red. Red and white,” explains Paquette, a tractor enthusiast.

In his Lake County shop, you'll find a man and his passion.

"The passion is that it's a history. It's America's history,” Paquette said at his workshop.

After retiring from the construction business in New Hampshire, Stew got bit by a bug.

"I know nothing about farming," Paquette said. "I never owned a farm tractor."

But that didn't stop a tractor collection from growing from one to seven, and making a mess at first.

"All the tractors were here with flat tires and oil all over the floor. I said 'what am I going to do with these things?'"

What Stew did was keep collecting International Harvester Tractors. One by one Stew's collection grew and grew and grew. Today, there's quite a few. Well more like 140.

The collection makes Stew museum curator of sorts. His private collection is open to the public as Paquette's Historical Farmall Museum.

Each of the 140 tractors are on display. Each is in working order. But these girls no longer leave the barn and get dirty.

"What we've tried to do with the museum is try to collect one of each one of the things that international built,” Paquette hinted.

The second barn full of “Stew's Stuff” includes international refrigerators, and even trucks, like Ford and GM make. In fact, the only green thing here is an international pickup truck.

Much like classic car collectors, who are passionate for one brand, here the red tractor company sucked up the green tractor company.

Look close and find the only John Deere's here are miniatures that are stuck in the air filters of the red International Harvesters.

Yet, the collection won't grow forever.

"They went out of business in 1985,” Stew concluded.

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