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YOU SET THE STANDARD. If you want to be the most persnickety purist, you work with only factory supplied materials based on the parts book, factory shop manual, and factory owners manual that applied when yours was built. They did change over the several years of production, both parts and paint. If you want to be a little more practical, you might use SS or farm store bolts instead of the originals, you will use readily available after market parts, which are sometimes reproductions and sometimes just something close that works made in some distant country as a universal part. And you paint it all gray. If you want it to work but don't care what or who says anything about it, you use whatever parts you can adapt, and scrap paint from the local body shop, or spray cans from wallyworld in AC, JD, Ford, Case, IH, and MF colors, whatever was on sale in the clearance aisle. And when you get done (though the purist will likely to be the last to get done) you will find that all these options lead to a working tractor and the sales value is affected more by the working than the spit and polish and further that the offered sales prices are less than you have put into it. So you use it happily until your kids practically give it away someday when you can't object anymore and they gave it away because they didn't know the money and work you put into it. Gerald J.
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