[AT] Green Farmall Cub

[Al Jones]

"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."

LOL, you don't know IH...…..I believe the head of the company would have
personally come to a perspective buyer's house dressed in a chicken suit,
if that meant they would buy a tractor......

Al

On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 8:51 PM <szabelski at wildblue.net> wrote:

> 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
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Indiana Robinson <robinson46176 at gmail.com>
> To: Antique Tractor Email Discussion Group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Mon, 02 Mar 2020 19:18:16 -0500 (EST)
> 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.
>
>
> .
>
> 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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> Central Indiana USA
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