[AT] Green Farmall Cub

[szabelski at wildblue.net]

Seen the pink ones myself, always with a lady driver. The husband was usually there too, with his equivalent red version.

I know the color chart you’re taking about, the colors were always a version of red (differences between paint suppliers for the different years)

I also know that some commercial Farmalls were painted yellow, and I believe the USN versions were either gray or blue (???). The US Army just stayed with red from what I’ve seen in pictures. Believe the USAF also had yellow.

The green paint job on my Cub wasn’t done with a mop, definitely sprayed. The first red coat also sprayed with the second red coat mostly sprayed, but some brush work.

Just never saw one JD green, and I can’t believe Farmall would paint any of their tractors green or any other color just to fill an order. Always considered colors and color schemes for tractors to be a trademark of the maker.


Carl
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From: Indiana Robinson <robinson46176 at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [AT] Green Farmall Cub

In recent years I have been seeing a number of pink tractors (and no I
don't drink) many of them very nicely done including decals etc.
One of the two McCormick 10-20's my father bought after WW-II was painted
green, maybe with a mop.  :-) During the depression and WW-II proper paint
was often not affordable or unavailable and people used leftover stuff to
paint machinery etc. That 10-20 may have matched his house or maybe he
might have wanted it to look like a John Deere D.  :-)  In the 1940's and
early 1950's even cars and trucks were often brush painted. Some looked
quite nice... and some didn't.  :-)
When Case IH came to be I recall someone displaying a Case SC Painted IHC
colors (wasn't very tidy) at the Indiana State Fair.


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On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 6:45 PM Howard Pletcher <hrpletch at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I've heard IH would paint tractors any color you ordered and I've seen
>> other green Farmalls supposedly from the factory.  For trucks, it was a
>> rather nominal fee for special colors, don't know about tractors.   Here's
>> a 966 at Red Power Roundup 2009 that was supposedly green from the
>> factory.  The owner wanted it to match his other tractors.
>>
>> Howard
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 6:13 PM <szabelski at wildblue.net> wrote:
>>
>>> OK, I know that there were white Farmalls that were used for demos at
>>> various dealerships, but did they ever paint them green for any reason???
>>>
>>> I’m in the process of rebuilding my Cub and just about everywhere I look
>>> there is green paint under a couple of coats of red. I’ve never heard of a
>>> green Farmall being built for any reason.
>>>
>>> The green is deep in the crevices and it doesn’t look like it was
>>> painted green over red at any time. I don’t think they used green primer.
>>>
>>> Any ideas or thoughts?
>>>
>>> Carl
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Francis Robinson
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Central Indiana USA
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