I am new to Yesterday's Tractors and have no idea what to expext. My name is Steve and I live in Granbury Texas. I usually collect and restore antique engines, pumpjacks, windmills, and farm emplements. I recently acquired my first tractor. Less than a mile from my farm parked behind an old barn set a 1939 Minn Moline model RTU. The old timer that owned it said I could have it if I could get it running, so I drug it home and have been having a blast working on it. It's one of the most interesting and easy to work on engines I've ever worked on. The question I have for y'all is will repainting it hurt the value or is it better to keep it original. The sheet metal is almost perfect with zero dents but the paint is almost all gone except for the underside of hood and most other under sides. All my old engine buds say don't touch it with new paint. The tractor is perfectly original and missing nothing even down to the original spark plug wires. It was parked in 1968 and ran out of gas in the sand in the spot I picked it up from.That's 46 years of Texas hail, sand storms, rain, tornados, and hot summers. The inside of the engine is very clean and in great condition. This old tractor will plow again.