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Posted by ScottyNY on May 28, 2002 at 15:10:53 from (151.202.182.6):
I put the pressure washer to Grandpa's 47 BN this weekend and found what I suspected--it started life orange. I had seen orange on the tool box and, since most of the casting codes indicate late 46 or early 47, knew that it fell in the right time frame for the yellow pigment. This is going to be a restoration job (paint is a long way off yet!) but I'm frettin' already. From a collector's point of view the original red/yellow/orange would be of some value, but I don't expect that would hold for new paint. Part of me says put it back to original, including the color. On the other hand, my uncle remembers the day it was delivered new to the farm and says it was definitely red. I suppose the dealer could have repainted it. By the time I got to know it and learned to drive on it, it was pretty well faded and could have been either orange or red. A high school shop repainted it in red in the early 80s. So, anyway, I'd value opinions on whether I ought to make it orange as original and therefore something of a conversation piece(with no added value), or make it red as we remember it to have been and as a Farmall "ought" to be. I'm up in the air. Maybe somebody advocating orange can also chime in with a paint code. The stuff I've uncovered resembles the AC orange, though not as bright. Sorry for the length and thanks for your thoughts. Scotty
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