[AT] Tractor colors

[charliehill]

One word.....................JAWS!


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Merchant" <kosh at ncweb.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 5:05 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Tractor colors


> My, what an angry looking grille!
>
> Most likely, Ford picked the cheapest available paint.
>
> But I think I read somewhere that Ferguson wanted drab gray
> because he was just that kind of person.
>
> If it was postwar, they might have used surplus Navy battleship gray.
>
> Been working on a 1947 built house, all the heating ducts are
> aircraft grade aluminum, clearly mil surplus.
>
> My father built a garden tractor around a B29 APU,
> with 2 of the original generators paired for electric drive.
> He later replaced the APU with a more normal engine,
> with a hydrostatic gun turret drive as the transmission.
>
> Personally, I think the Ford redbelly scheme is one of the best ever done.
>
> Dave Merchant
>
>
> At 04:19 PM 12/10/2009, you wrote:
>>I was looking at Mike Sloan's excellent restoration of his 2N
>>Ford/Ferguson (We never called our 9N a Ford, it was always the
>>Ford/Ferguson).. A lot of my friends that moved up here from KY kept
>>insisting on calling it a Fordson. :-)
>>As I was looking at the pictures Diana walked up and looked and said
>>"Is that painted? It looks like it is just primed". When I indicated
>>that it was indeed nicely painted she responded with "eeew! what a
>>drab awful color!".
>>Now I have been dropping seeds of thought for some time that one of
>>those needs to be appearing here one of these days soon. Rather than
>>just saying "I want one of those"I started showing her more brightly
>>colored tractors with color schemes that I could use on one here if I
>>had one.  Now I have almost convinced myself as well. I looked at
>>Mikes tractor again and that really is a pretty pathetic color when
>>you look at it...
>>I don't consider paint to be a permanent thing like chopping metal etc.
>>Two of the prettiest tractors around IMHO are Larry and Gary Dotson's
>>Cockshutts which have reversed color schemes from each other. Another
>>color scheme I like a lot is the Ferguson 40.
>>Our TO-20 bought new in about 1949 did have a little better color than
>>the 9N. It had more of a hint of blue instead of just dead carp gray.
>>:-)
>>When we restored it in the late 1960s we used the Massey Ferguson
>>colors. We were not doing it for showing, we just thought it would
>>look sharp and it did.
>>As I was looking at colors today it occurred to me that the color
>>scheme of the Case 300 might look sharp on a 9N/2N...
>>http://media.photobucket.com/image/case%20300/NZTRACTORDUDE/scan0008.jpg
>>I would get a lot of fun from watching the "correct police" gasp and
>>gag over one painted like that. ;-)
>>I know, I have a mean streak... :-)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>--
>>Have you hugged your horses today?
>>
>>Francis Robinson
>>aka "farmer"
>>Central Indiana USA
>>robinson46176 at gmail.com
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> Dave Merchant
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