Was this a real Paint option? Farmall M

Saw this on Facebook and though its pretty cool. I cant find any other examples of this online. Was this an actual option or is this just a custom paint job? Very Curious

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No M came with Live power. Stage 2 SM had live Hydraulics. SMTA had that and Live PTO and Torque Amplifier (10 speed and 2 reverse) looks to be a 1800$ tractor. Jim
 
some people sure spoil a tractor with paint, its nothing i would want. way out of wack on his price. red is the only color of that time period. unless it was industrial yellow, and i would take yellow over that.
 
Thats hideous
Theres an M around here that the guy has the cast parts painted black and the tin is red. Just the opposite of this. Its much like the CIH color scheme that doesnt look bad.
 
I would much rather do this all day compared with to whatever horror this is I saw lol, the line is drawn here, why


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IH would paint any color as long as it was solid. There were some M's and later tractors painted a yellowish cream that were sold to the canning factories around here. They used to turn up at auctions from time to time but have not seen any for a while now.
 
If that red & black M had been washed in the last year MAYBE it would be worth $1800. I bought paint for IH's FARMALL PLANT. We bought 2150 red several 325 gallon totes at a time every week. We had a semi-gloss black We bought a 5 gal pail a time or two a year. The 935 White was the trim color on the 86-series, we got 935 in 55 gal drums 1 or 2 a week. The 483 Federal Yellow We used more than you might think, Chisolm-Ryder bought H86 Hi-clear tractors to mount string bean harvesters to painted yellow, Barber-Green ordered H186's to mount blacktop paving machines onto that were Federal Yellow. A HUGE carrot farmer in California ordered 5-6 1086's painted orange on the tractor and cab was painted a kinda bluish green, supposed to have been carrot colors.
The production control manager from Moline Paint visited our plant every Tuesday, he walked around and inventoried all 5 paint lines, talked to Supervisors, lead men on the lines, He made a list of what we needed, He'd have the General Foreman approve the list, and he'd drop it off with me on his way out of the plant, and he was already picking the stuff for his next shipment to us the next morning. SHERWIN-WILLIAMS owns them now.
About 1980/'81 FARMALL installed an E-COAT paint system, it was located in the south east corner of the Dept. 80 building where final 2+2 assembly took place. Sherwin-Williams in Chicago supplied the e-coat paint in bulk via semi-trailer tank trailers, I'm not sure WHO ordered that paint but I never did. The system held lots and lots of paint. The paint was not an exact match to the 2150 red Moline Paint or Valspar supplied us, the e-coat paint was described as a Cleaner Red, problem with the e-coat, after several years of outdoor exposure it weathered to a darker, kinda burnt red. Today's paints are MUCH better.
 
This one is in the auction at Meridian Equip in Bellingham, WA right now.. .
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This post was edited by gomi_otaku on 09/10/2022 at 02:59 pm.
 

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