OT - Sunset at Royse-ville (pic)

Royse

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We're all resting now. Corn's doing Ok.

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I personally like the original paint scheme best.
The previous owner painted this one blue and now any little chip
or scratch lets the red show through. (not a great paint job)

I think its awesome that you're putting your grandfather's tractor
back to work. It's yours now so I would say paint it any color you
like. I assume that's how it got to be blue to begin with, right? :)
 
When Ford went from red to blue, the dealers offered to "re-paint" the older models in "modern" Ford blue. This one went through that sometime in its past (before Papaw bought it used in the mid-60s).

Family has always known it as blue. It's "original" to the family that way, but it's not "original" to the tractor. If that makes sense.
 
Makes perfectly good sense.
If you want to keep it blue I don't see what it would hurt.
Hopefully if it was a dealer repaint they will have done a better
job at the prep work and you won't have the chipping and peeling
to contend with that many of these old tractors have.
Once they start flaking off the best way I've found to fix it is to
take it all the way down to bare metal and use a good primer.
 
Great photo! Nice tractor and a nice field of corn. My field corn is almost waist high. Yours is a bit ahead of mine.

Colin, MN
 
Thanks Colin! Plenty of rain and some pretty warm days this year.
Unless the weather turns ugly, should be a good year for corn here.
I hope it turns out well for you too!
 
Looks good Royse. The corn is high all over in this
part of the woods. sorry I missed you at Charlton
Park last week-end. Got busy putting a new deck on
my cottage. Plan to go to the Barry County Fair this
week. Old tractors will be there also.
 

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