I recently posted a message about original paint on '46 models that faded to a kinda orange-red or yellow-red-orange color down below. I remembered that many were repainted in the '50's. There were several "funny colored" H's & M's in our part of SD when I was a kid. I believe they were all late '45 or '46 models. My uncle got a new '46 under "veteran preference" regulations when he was discharged from the Navy after WWII. He, my dad & grandpa (Uncles dad) farmed together for a couple of years after the war. My Dad had gotten a '44 H in '45 because he & grandpa were farming with horses & an F-12 during WWII. Dad had to get on a list to be able to buy a tractor. He got on the list in '43, right after I was born, but his name didn't come up to the top of the list until early 1945. (He got a '44 model by the serial #, but he always said it was a '45.) My uncle's new '46 H faded to a different color than my dad's '44 H did. I still have my Dad's '44 H & my cousin still has his Dad's 46 H. Cousin had his dads repainted a few years ago, it was still the faded orange-red color. I told him he should of not had it repainted, as the faded color was unique & I didn't think there were many still around that color. Saw a "W-9" in a salvage yard in Neb. on the way home from Colorado just a few weeks age. Does anyone have one of those "funny colored" '46 models out there or were they all repainted in the '50's?(My $0.02 worth. jal-SD)