WD and WD-45 Decals

02XLT4X4 · Jun 16, 2008

While shopping for decals for my WD-45 I noticed that they make ones that have "Allis-Chalmers" in blue lettering with a long A and S. Mine is a midyear '53 and I have a picture of my grandfather sitting on it shortly after his father brought it home and it has dark (he said it was black, pic is B/W) lettering with the A and S even with the rest of the lettering.

Also I noticed that some places (YT for example) have a short fat WD-45 decal in their kit. Rather than the tall skinny one both in my picture and on most other pictures out there.

Is there some reason that I am not aware of as to why company's would bother making what appears to me an obviously wrong product like this or am I missing something?

I wonder if early WD's had the blue/long A & S lettering as my '47 C did, but I am at a loss as to why they would carry that clear over to WD-45's

Anonymous-0 · Jun 17, 2008

Some of the older WC tractors used the blue letters, and may be included because it's cheaper than stocking for each individual model. What bugs me is paying $75 for a set from an AGCO dealer and the only 'Allis-Chalmers' in the set was wrong- simple black letters with no border. Had much better results dealing with Jorde on my next one.

02XLT4X4 · Jun 17, 2008

The TISCO set I got just has white outlined blue lettering with the goofy looking WD-45 decals and about half of the decals I thought I should have. No traction booster setting decal, no power-crater or snap coupler... for $7 more than my final set. I just puff canned it for now so it doesn't have to be dead nuts perfect but somewhat close would be nice. Just trying to get it looking fairly nice and to get qualm the "is that a WC?" questions at shows from running around stickerless. I did some asking around about the WD-45 decals, and that was when the color was brought up and I checked the picture.

I returned the TISCO set and ordered these:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ALLIS-CHALMERS-...ryZ63988QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

I even scored some neat "diesel" decals to add to my collection on my toolbox.

Although not for YT, the TISCO set is pretty much the same as these (they did ask blue or black, but I thought being a early tractor, if a WD-45 would have blue, it would):
http://www.ytmag.com/cgi-bin/store/...d=WD45&cat=Decals and Emblems&r=mcats

02XLT4X4 · Jun 17, 2008

And I am not trying to endorse anyones decals or anything, I haven't even got them yet. Just trying to see if they were making obviously wrong ones or if there was a reason to it I didn't know about.

Kind of like making replacement Ford ovals for cars green instead of blue...

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