[AT] Green Farmall Cub

[James Peck]

About 10 years ago, one of the auto magazines had a method for rolling on hardened (2 part) paint and then sanding it smooth after it dried.
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My early tractor mentor told of painting a 30's model dodge before WWII with a brush with paint from the local hardware store.  He said it was auto paint and had a retarder in the paint to allow the brush strokes to flow out before the paint hardened.  He was telling how a dust storm had come in the night after he painted it and put it in the barn.  He washed the dust off with well water and thought that the cold water set the paint.  He said the paint stayed shiny and hard until he sold the car in the 50's.
Cecil

On 3/2/2020 6:18 PM, Indiana Robinson wrote:
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<mailto: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<mailto: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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