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Just wondered if anyone out there has ever run across a Phantom machine?.. By Phantom I mean, ya know what you got cause yer lookin right at it... Ya know it wasn't modified, cause ya know the machine's history.... But yet the people at Toro/Wheel Horse tell you that you don't have what you have, cause it's something else....OK Enough mystery, here's the fact's (as best I know them) . I own a 520-8 Wheel Horse tractor. According to the dealer prep & delivery ticket's tucked into the owner's manual, the machine was purchased "New" in Nov. 92 near Trenton, Nj... But when trying to get a shop manual from Toro, I'm told according to my SN# I've got a 416H not a 520-8. They also tell me the rear fender with the SN# must have been switched. The SN# on origonal paperwork matches the tag on the fender, so that contradict's the fender switch theory. Another identity anchoring factor is. The neighbor I got the machine from is the head of maintenence at the private school that owned it from new. From him I also learned they didn't buy a floor model, but ordered it new. Making it unlikely, though not impossable, to be a leftover. Anyway, got tired trying to convince Toro, figured I know what I know, it is what it is, quit scratching my head just use it & learn on the way. That worked for a couple of year's, but lately I started thinking about some modification's. That prompted me to look for an owner's site because a man much smarter than I long ago tought me that "Experience Is The Best Teacher, But Only a Fool Know's No Other" . Got here, started looking around, & took a look at the year & model list's. Now I'm back to scratching my head, wondering what i've got, because 1990 was the only year I could find a 520-8............. So here's the hundred dollar question................. Has toro/Wheel Horse ever been known to produce oddball's, or re-SN# something produced earlier. I'm hoping someone out there might have a clue to what could have taken place, because I sure dont, & apparently niether does Toro. Metalman01
