[AT] Paint...

[Indiana Robinson]

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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Francis Robinson
aka "farmer"
Central Indiana USA
robinson46176 at gmail.com