[Farmall] "A" serial number Just wondering

[E. John Puckett]

Charlie, you better jump on that or let the rest of us know where it is and then 
watch out you don't get trampled.

Chuck wrote:
> Hummm interesting, sort of wondered about that in the back of my mind
> Thanks Mike, the people selling the tractors didn't really know what they
> had, was saying that the 47 was a Super A an was not pushing the other
> one, the 44 as a demo. But still, they had both the 47 which was running
> an the other the 44 which was not for less that $1000, both had front an
> back
> wheel weights an good sheet metal. I may still invest if they are around
> in the afternoon when I go back down there.
> 
>                                                     Charlie
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Schmudlach" <mschmudlach at charter.net>
> To: "Farmall/IHC mailing list" <farmall at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2004 9:02 PM
> Subject: Re: [Farmall] "A" serial number Just wondering
> 
> 
> 
>>Chuck,
>>First thing.........IH never put primer on tractors until the 1960s.
>>So if your 1944 tractor has primer on it then it was repainted at one
> 
> time.
> 
>>End of mystery.
>>
>>Mike
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Chuck" <mars at nwlink.com>
>>To: "Farmall/IHC mailing list" <farmall at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>>Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2004 10:43 PM
>>Subject: [Farmall] "A" serial number Just wondering
>>
>>
>>This weekend I came across a couple of A's one a 47 an the other a 44
> 
> which
> 
>>a fellow
>>had for sale. The 44 was painted white, now after looking at the book an
>>seeing it was
>>made in 1944 a few of Chapter #30 members that were there thought it
>>couldn't be
>>a white demo. But here is brothering me, the tractor was painted white
>>except for
>>one part, it looked like it had been sitting along side of a fence row for
> 
> a
> 
>>number of
>>years, like about twenty or more. Serial #105477 which is a 44, I know
> 
> that
> 
>>IH painted
>>what ever color you wanted but one never knows if the dealer may have
>>painted it
>>or someone just liked white.  Sort of strange that a old tractor drug from
> 
> a
> 
>>fence row
>>would be white an even under the paint I found no red only old primer.
>>
>>
> 
> Charlie
> 
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