I got &amp;quot;officially&amp;quot; hooked when Bob Tallman signed me up to the HPOCA in 1992.  Having grown up in an all-Oliver family, I didn&#039;t realize Oliver&#039;s importance to the industry until I was exposed to the HPOCA.  My grandfather was an Oliver dealer in Granity City and Hamel, IL.  Having over 30 cousins, we did a lot of shade-tree farming with our Oliver toys whenever we went to Grandpa&#039;s.  We still have the first new tractor that Grandpa ever sold.  It was a 1936 18-28 on round spoke rubber tires.  Someday it will be restored again and taken to shows.  I can&#039;t even imagine my life now without being surrounded by Oliver tractors and my Oliver friends.