Vintage Sears Garden Tractors
The Hydro-Tracs were Sears Best  tractors. With the Sears Best designation came all of the goodies that the top of the line tractors had: cigarette lighter, chrome hubcaps, and  wider tires. The ease of one lever operation that the early Suburbans had was duplicated in these tractors. The tractors even had the speed selector on the right side of the dash---just like the old Bradley tractors.

These tractors were based on the Suburban line of tractors. They accepted all of the accessories listed in the Sears literature with the exception of the front-end loader.
1968 Hydro-Trac 12                                    

1968 Hydro-Trac 12                                     

1969 Hydro-Trac 12 Dash
                           

1969 Hydro-Trac 12                                  

1970 Hydro-Trac 12 View 2   View 3             

1971 Hydro-Trac 14                                     

1978 Hydro 18    2   3   4                           
Hydro-Tracs
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Hi, welcome to Spence's Vintage Sears Garden Tractor site.  I saw a need for this information after many people asked what year their Sears Tractor was made. With that in mind, I set off on a mission to gather as much information as I could and to present it here in this public forum for all to use.  I hope you enjoy your visit here. Please be sure to visit the homepage if you were directed here from a link on someone else's site. I'm working hard to provide more Sears information all the time. If you have something you think is relevant, please let me know. I hope you bookmark my site and return often. 
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