[AT] Green Farmall Cub

[Bill Brueck]

I don't know how well this transfers to what they did with tractors, but the color for the common International model M stationary engines that showed up in my neck of the woods was green, quite a bit darker than Deere green.  When I started playing with such in my early teens, about 1960, Rustoleum had an implement paint called International Green that I used on such projects.  From what I could tell at the time the color was about the same as used on Fairbanks Morse and Hercules engines and I used the same paint on them, too.  The knowledge base of correct engine paint has been greatly refined and well documented since then.  If I ever get back to restoring engines I'll have better information to work with.

Bill Brueck
   Pine Island, MN, USA


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Dunno about a Farmall Cub, but I swear my grandmothers 36 McCormick-Deering Farmall was green, not Deere green but more dark minty. 

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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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