Paint scheme on 2N

I was always under the impression that the 2 and 9N"s were all darker gray and the 8n was light gray and red. I am restoring a 47 2N that is painted light gray and red. I realize that a lot of the tractors have been repainted over the years and it is not uncommon to see this. On this one though, I am bead blasting all of the removable parts to bare metal and there is no sign of dark gray paint under the red or light gray. Did some of these 2N's get painted 8N colors at the factory?
 
I have never heard of any 2n's being painted red/grey. It's been 68 years since Ford made the last 2n. I have seen more 2n's painted red/grey or light grey than I have painted dark grey. Very few have not been repainted at least once in it's working life.
 
That has been my experience also. I just find it hard to believe that I can't find any gray paint under that red. I just don't see anyone taking all of the parts down to bare metal for a working tractor, and believe me this tractor has been worked. I did another 47 2N a few months ago and went back to the dark gray with it. I had my doubts but it came out real nice.
 
(quoted from post at 17:15:33 05/27/15) That has been my experience also. I just find it hard to believe that I can't find any gray paint under that red. I just don't see anyone taking all of the parts down to bare metal for a working tractor, and believe me this tractor has been worked. I did another 47 2N a few months ago and went back to the dark gray with it. I had my doubts but it came out real nice.
arold, any relation to a fellow named Miles?
 
I found red over blue over orangey red over a couple different shades of gray.
I'm doing it plain gray as that's what was on sale.
It's darker in the shade than it is in the sun any ways lol
And of course the Dearborn FEL has a few different colors too. Gonna be red.
 
My '41 9N (a.k.a 'Puddles') was dark blue (well, half rust) when I bought it and I could find no dark grey underneath. I also wondered what the original color was. Eventually I found the grey inside the air cleaner and on a few other obscure places as I disassembled it. I figure maybe the tractor was painted blue in the 70s and someone took a lot of effort to remove nearly all traces of the gray - unless it was all rusted off at that time.

Gary
 

That tractor did its last real work 40 years ago. Since then it could have been taken down to bare metal, repainted and banged up again twice.
 
I almost bought a 47 2 N a couple years ago, I passed on it but a friend of mine bought it instead. At the time it was blue and white, so he stripped it down and he found no grey either, only red on the cast. Being that both of these are late 2 ms could it be possible they came out red and grey?
 

The only place I found the dark gray on 1946 was under the seat spring (where it mounted to the tractor). All else was gone. Might check there. I used that paint for the PPG folks to match it.
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Noting but red under the seat spring. I even dismantled the front cross member and it was red between the spindle yokes and the cross member. If someone painted this thing red, they did a damn good job of it.
 
(quoted from post at 10:41:31 05/31/15) Noting but red under the seat spring. I even dismantled the front cross member and it was red between the spindle yokes and the cross member. If someone painted this thing red, they did a damn good job of it.

I can't imagine doing a paint job with the seat on, and to do a descent prep job you have to remove most of the paint, and where the front axle parts bolt together you would be hard pressed to ge te paint in the lower parts with them still together.
 

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