Growing up behind the wheel of an old, chartreuse-colored Steiger Bearcat, I felt as if I was on top of the world. The tractor may have been worn out when my father bought it, but it still marked a ...

Alan Taggart still hears the ghosts of Detroit engines that beat the air to death between a roar and a scream on his farmland, powering eight tractors at the vanguard of the four-wheel drive era.