[AT] Paint...

[Ron Cook]

Farmer,
     I tend to like the original colors and original gloss.  No wet 
look.  However, I have no problem with the tractor owner doing it up the 
way HE likes it.  Sometimes they are quite interesting.  Like a farmer 
neighbor of ours when I was growing up.  He farmed with a Farmall M as 
his only tractor.  It must have been a war production model as the paint 
was orange by 1950 or so.  One of his buddies had an auto repair shop 
that he also did body work and painting.  That M got a very nice repaint 
done in automotive paint in a very nice shade of blue.  Talk of the 
neighborhood.  It looked the same in 1980 or so when he quit farming as 
it did in 1950 other than the usual scratches, etc. from mounting 
implements and farming.  Must have been better paint than the IH red.

Ron Cook
Salix, IA
On 1/29/2015 10:26 AM, Indiana Robinson wrote:
> I thought on this cloudy blustery January day even paint might  be
> interesting.
> Been in a conversation on a Facebook group about tractor painting. One
> member mentioned that he wondered how his red and gray Ford tractor would
> look if it were painted gray and Ford blue instead. The responses were
> about what you would expect from "sacrilegious" to yawning.
> Personally I consider paint to be a temporary thing so I don't mind some
> variation.
> Some of my comments are below.
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> Actually most color schemes can look fine "IF" it is a nice paint job. If
> something has been painted with an old string mop and they didn't do any
> masking then all colors look bad.
>
> I see a lot of "other" color schemes that I like really well and may just
> use them on a few tractors just to annoy the correct police (and because I
> like them). If I were doing it I might consider keeping the red and
> replacing the gray with a cream... Sort of like Cockshutt's. I have two
> 8N's and I want one original but I might do the second one like that.  There
> is a third sitting in my barn lot that is not mine but it has crossed my
> mind that if I had it it might look quite interesting in John Deere green
> and yellow... Would that make it worth twice as much?  Or, it might look
> good like one of those Olivers with the dark green and yellow...
>
>   I find most color schemes and colors "acceptable", even rust...
> Still, I do find many of them kind of boring, especially the older ones
> with single color painting. I love my Ferguson TO-20 but it's really bland.
> At least my 8N's are two colors. The 9N my father bought new was an even
> worse color to me.
> I read recently that one of the reasons makers moved away from the old
> grays was that too many tractors were getting hit on the roads since they
> just didn't stand out enough.
> I think a red and gray Ford would look good with the proper gray with a
> deeper Farmall red.
> While I like seeing a proper original tractor I also dislike the concept of
> seeing a whole bunch of the same model of tractors parked together at a
> show, knowing that my tractor is in line there but not being able to tell
> from a distance which one is mine. I'm just enough of an odd-ball that I
> want mine to stand out a bit.
> It doesn't really matter though, I still love them all.
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