Ultra-Rare Brass-Plated WARN M8274 Winch Found

[Warn Industries]

This is 1 of 5 brass-plated WARN M8274 winches that were given out to people in the off-road industry in the 1980s. This one was given to the woman who ran the Oakland 4 Wheel Parts story from 1977 to 1989. Ruth is quite the woman, and she recently returned this to us to have for our headquarters. It was never mounted, never taken out of the box for 27 years. Read about it below.

https://warnindustries.wordpress.com/2016/11/17/rare-golden-m8274-found/

 

[RedF]

Neat story. Silly question, but where does the remote plug in?

 

[Zeep]

Pretty cool! Makes me wonder what happened to the other four.

 

[Warn Industries]

Neat story. Silly question, but where does the remote plug in?

It actually has a bracket with a plug that we didn't install.

- Andy

 

[IdaSHO]

Cool story!

Pretty sweet piece of history to return to it's creator :sombrero:

 

[toddz69]

I love reading stories like this.

Todd Z.

 

[Warn Industries]

So, interestingly enough, our German distributor, Taubenreuther, saw our story and it turns out they have one, too! So that's 2 of 5 accounted for!

- Andy

 

[LR Max]

I need dis...