[AT] Yellow Farmall

[drupert at seanet.com]

... Speaking of IH selling tractors in other than red clothes.  Page 89 of
the September-October issue of Red Power magazine shows a picture of a
canary yellow Farmall 230 for sale which seller says was shipped that way
from the factory.  The yellow Farmall in Ralph's picture appears to me to
have a fresh coat of, as Mike says, Sherwin Williams.  Just one guy's
opinion but IF I were going to turn an antique tractor into lawn art I
think I would want to leave its' old dirty clothes on.  But, since I've
never done this I probably shouldn't be commenting ...

Dudley


> That one looks like a "Sherwin Williams special" lawn ornament, but a
> lot of working IH tractors got painted different colors over the years.
>
> I have one also <http://public.fotki.com/mikesloane/1952-farmall-cub/>.
> When I was working on it, I found three layers of paint - the new
> yellow/white, IH red, and a base of "highway dept." yellow that looked
> to be OEM. I have heard that dealers would happily paint your tractor
> any color to close a sale, and the factory would make a special color
> run for government orders. Guy Fay would know more about that.
>
> Mike
>
> On 12/28/2010 9:46 PM, Ralph Goff wrote:
>> Came across this photo on Panoramio showing what appears to be a bright
>> yellow Farmall tractor.
>>> http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/static.panoramio.com/photos/original/44342232.jpg
>>
>> Ralph in Sask.
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