What's Wrong With This Picture

Tall T

Well-known Member
Am I showing my ignorance or is there something wrong with this picture. It's a print of a painting and it's on metal. The PO gave it to me.

Cheers,
T

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(quoted from post at 15:10:29 11/27/14) Am I showing my ignorance or is there something wrong with this picture. It's a print of a painting and it's on metal. The PO gave it to me.

Cheers,
T

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xposure isn't perfect & angle of flash caused glare. :wink:
 
I don't know the Jubilee that well, but the air cleaner on the 8N is on the right side not the left.

Could the negative have been reversed?
 

No, the cleaner is on the same side as mine.
I'm searching around to make sure I'm not wrong about what's wrong. :)
 
(quoted from post at 16:58:48 11/27/14)
No, the cleaner is on the same side as mine.
I'm searching around to make sure I'm not wrong about what's wrong. :)
enerator & starter wrong color.
 

Not.

Which reminds me . . . one day in 1986, my girl over in Vancouver asked me if I wanted to go out for supper. I said "NOT" and we both thought that was pretty funny and it became our own private joke ... saying, "not"! We figured it was too weird for anyone else to think it was funny. Ten years later she phoned me from Vancouver and said, "Do you believe it, saying NOT has just become this huge Hollywood thing!" :)
 
(quoted from post at 17:52:33 11/27/14)
Not.

Which reminds me . . . one day in 1986, my girl over in Vancouver asked me if I wanted to go out for supper. I said "NOT" and we both thought that was pretty funny and it became our own private joke ... saying, "not"! We figured it was too weird for anyone else to think it was funny. Ten years later she phoned me from Vancouver and said, "Do you believe it, saying NOT has just become this huge Hollywood thing!" :)
esides the generator & starter being the wrong color (should be red), what else do you have in mind?
 
Excuse me JMOR, I should have said that your point about the incorrect colors was excellent and additional to what I have in mind. Oh I see, you spotted that mistake right off. :)

Here's a clue from a kind of original of this re-pro sign ad (same text anyway) with an attachment.

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/antique-ford-tractor-sign-/181593336924?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2a47ce6c5c
 

Good eye Old soul!
It looks like the painter blew his perspective a little.
Keep looking though. :)
 
AND THE WINNER IS . . . well at least with regards to what I had in mind . . .

Hank.

As far as I know there were no loop rims on factory Jubilees.
 
Crawler John,
You've probably nailed something else, but I'm not tractor savvy enough to say.
 
Dad and I each have that same metal sign. Years
back we went to the farm store just before
Christmas.

When we walked in. I saw the signs with
clearance tags. They had two of the Fords. I
thought that would make dad a good present. I
walked around the store a little and soon
noticed only one sign left. I grabbed it up.

On Christmas we opened presents. I gave dad his
present and he gave me mine. Yep, We gave each
other the same sign!
 
A 600!
This is getting more interesting all the time.
In the painting there is no lettering in the front emblem but it isn't the 600 emblem design.

I'm guessing that the artist picked (or was given as a model) what he thought was a restored-to-factory-specs Jube and painted his masterpiece.

P.S.
Were the 600's all 6V?

Must have been a hoot exchanging those gifts! :)
 
Considering that this is supposed to be replicating a 1953 Ford advertisement . . .

Starter and generator are the wrong colors.
Rear rims should be Hat rims not loop.
Tread angle of rear rubber may not be specific to '53.

How are your glasses broken?
I have a handy repair method that works really well.
 
Thanks.....as embarrassing as this is....I stepped on them....I had removed them as I was working under the 861.....OPPS....Rite Aid opens tomorrow!!
 
Thought I'd post my repair job anyhoo.
I rough the plastic up, put some Devcon Plastic Steel in a short piece of clear plastic tubing, and force the two pieces into the tubing. Of course if you do the hinge, you won't be able to fold them anymore.

On the bridge, same deal EXCEPT . . . you have to force and clamp the glasses so that when the epoxy is dry, the tubing will no longer be able to bend the two lens sections upward as the tubing tries to straighten out. Sorry, got that backwards in first explanation.

The tubing is gentle on the nose as well.

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Ultradog,

I looked closely and there appears to be a nut.
I'll have to remember that distinction.

Kirk,
Thanks for the tread angle trivia.
CrawlerJohn nailed that part of the "what's wrong".

Hobo,
My favorite Steve Martin clip from that movie is "That's All I Need".

Bonnan.
That method works well doesn't it. I took those black ones to town last week and left them in the grocery store. I was hoping that nobody who stuck them in the lost and found would instinctively try to fold the arms in but miraculously, they did not. :D

Cheers all,
T
 
I saw the rear rims but to me the left front tire looks like it is half off the rim but is still up. lolLike someone didnt finish putting it on the rim. lol :D
 
Ya, the artist got black paint all over that rim.
He must have painted that part Sunday mornin' comin' down. :D

P.S.
The artist probably got seriously bored with the task at that point and just wanted to take the money and run; I would if I was him.

signed,
Wildly Speculative :)
 
Along with all other stuff noted (loop rims, proportions, rear tires, black stuff) the right side umbrella holder is missing....and I never saw anybody mount them that far back on the fender. I have a couple of this tin sign received as gifts over the years and consider it a poor reproduction of the original Jub configuration. Also the Jubs came with front tires that had knobby threads along the outside. See pic.
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Smalltowner wrote:

Along with all other stuff noted (loop rims, proportions, rear tires, black stuff) the right side umbrella holder is missing....and I never saw anybody mount them that far back on the fender. I have a couple of this tin sign received as gifts over the years and consider it a poor reproduction of the original Jub configuration. Also the Jubs came with front tires that had knobby threads along the outside. See pic.

Umbrella holder!!
At first I thought you were kidding, but is that what the black splash on the left rear is supposed to be. This is the first I'd heard of a Jube umbrella holder.

Now-a-days if your friends and neighbors know you are into tractors, you have to immediately contact them all -- just like when you get a new email addy-- to ask them to not gift you with any "authentic" ford tractor signs. :)

Good sleuthing! You've added TWO more "what's wrongs"
to this woefully inadequate replica.

Cheers,
Terry
 
To tell the truth I had never looked closely at the tin until you opened this thread, glad you did, was interesting. I used an original postcard from a Ford dealer sent out in late '52 with a factory Jub pic on it as my pattern to restore my Jub, but I have alternator and 3 rib fronts so I fail the purist originality test.
 

Me too . . . alternator and 3-rib fronts plus custom-widened Hat rims, hydraulic filter unit and my air suspension Ford 2000 seat. :)

I didn't notice that about the fronts till you pointed it out.

Thanks,
T
 
I didn't know it until tonight, but I had an original and accurate painting (with correct text) all along in a Ford Tractors book by Robert Pripps. P. 84

Unfortunately for the farmer, he stepped in the red paint bucket :)

But maybe that was a color sync or scan settings problem when the old page was edited for book placement in 2000.

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Here's another Ad with tractor painting:
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