[AJD] JD Paint

[louis at kellnet.com]

I spoke to a paint engineer at Deere about 10 years ago.  He told me that 
Classic Green was the color used on New Gen tractors(1961) up though the 
80's or whenever they changed to the new AG green.  I don't remember exactly 
what year he told me the AG green was introduced.  He said the Classic Green 
was brought out so there was paint to match the older equipment.  He also 
told me the original name for Classic Green was "Iron Blue"


Now, DuPont has three variations of John Deere green in their Centari line. 
Alt #1 is really dark, almost like a Hart Parr green, my guess is that was 
for tractors in the 1920 maybe early 30's.  Alt #2 matches pretty close to 
paint that I see on tractors from the 30's, 40's, and 50's.  Meaning I have 
spray cards with the 3 different alternates on them.  I have matched the #2 
card to paint that has been "hidden" on these tractors.  Alt #3 is dead on 
to Classic Green.  Dupont Imron also matches Classic Green.  The paint code 
for Dupont John Deere Green is 262.  If you get Centari, it is very 
important that they mix the proper Alt # for you.  I was once told there 
wasn't much difference between the alt's but there is.  Your jobber might 
want to just mix alt #1. Don't let them do it.  This is how I found out 
about the different alt colors.

Lou

-----Original Message----- 
From: greg at theoldtractorcompany.com
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 4:33 PM
To: 'Antique John Deere mailing list'
Subject: Re: [AJD] JD Paint

I think the Classic should be a shade or two darker than the AG. At
least the new tractors we had were definitely a lighter hue than say a
4020 or am 8640.I always told my customers that so long as they felt
the new tractors out front looked like John Deere green to them it
really didn't matter. Just pick one and stick with it, don't mix them!
Of course TRUE period paint varied all over the place. There was a
fellow who had spent countless hours tracking them down and had
somewhere around 3 or 4 different shades for the two cylinder and New
Generation alone! Also, ever notice how an old original new old stock
part is a darker green than even the Classic? I think that things were
bit more loose and carefree back then so the paint did vary a bit over
the years.
Greg

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Greg Stephen
Joe Traktor
> Dean VP
> Snohomish, WA
> We want deeds, not smoke and mirrors!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: antique-johndeere-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com [1]
[mailto:antique-johndeere-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com [2]] On
Behalf Of greg at theoldtractorcompany.com [3]
> Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2012 6:35 PM
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> Subject: Re: [AJD] JD Paint
>
> Dean
> When John Deere introduced the Classic and AG green I was told by
Deere that the Classic was meant to be for older equipment, up to
about the 4440 tractors say. The AG was for everything since then.
> This always seemed about right to me as the older tractors were
somewhat darker in appearance than the new tractors we had sitting out
front.
>
> So that's what I've always gone by.
>
> Greg
>

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