[AT] Green Farmall Cub

[Indiana Robinson]

My father used to tell of early paint shops (1920's and 1930's) painting
cars and letting them skin over good then pushing them either out in the
rain or running a hose over them for a while to "make the paint harder".
He always said that he had no idea if it really helped or not. May have
been snake oil...
He once painted a car (1937 Willys 4 door) by brush after it pretty much
lost its dark maroon factory paint. He used black "stove" paint which had a
reputation (or at least a claim) of flowing out smooth and shiny. It did
hold up decently. Shortly after WW-II he bought a good quality spray outfit
that included a 3 gallon pressure paint tank and did quite a bit of
painting older equipment etc. I still have it and it is still a good unit
even at 70+ years old.
I bought an airless outfit about a year ago but have not used it yet. I
plan to paint several buildings with it including a rental house and a few
grain bins.


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On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 1:13 AM Cecil Bearden <crbearden at copper.net> wrote:

> 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:
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> 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:
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>> 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
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>>> On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 6:13 PM <szabelski at wildblue.net> wrote:
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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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