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The thread down in the Ford N series column got me thinking back to the 1970's. I remember more than a couple of 9N's painted in "sky blue." I understand that the choice of color should ultimately rest with the tractor owner and if he wants to paint it other than the factory scheme then that is his right. But in any event I have seen some goofy choices in terms of paint jobs. Cream colored IH's and no they were not demonstrators or trying to mimic demonstrators. Blue JD 2 cylinders. Anybody got any stories on unusual tractor paint jobs?
 
A Purple JD in memory of a gone to soon family member. Pink on various makes for cancer awareness. The sharpest looking oddity was a black and gold 44 Massey.
 
Bunch of yahoo's down the road from me drive this one around, this count?
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Well there was a purple Oliver they created for an advertisement. Doesn't look like a hippy driving it in the picture, at least not the ones I knew back then.
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I'd love to know how the term Hippy has anything to do with a tractor and why a tractor was painted in what way. The term hippy has nothing want so ever to do with a tractor it was a term used for people in the 60s that did not like the fact we where in Vietnam and should not be used with or about tractors in any way
 
We had a guy in our neighborhood who painted his John Deere B with Volkswagen blue paint. Tires, wheels, steering wheel, and all. It was the most disgusting thing I ever looked at. Another old neighbor said, "Beats anything I've ever helt, smelt, dealt, or felt". I've always used it as the standard by which to judge ugly tractors. I've said many times, "Yep, that tractor's ugly, but it ain't as ugly as Delmar's John Deere".
 
Don't take it too serious Old - our preacher called my rusty old Ford pickup "The Taliban Truck".

From the pulpit. . .
 
(quoted from post at 11:09:01 01/24/17) Hard to tell what is in that bowl from where I sit.
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Ya actually when you look closer he's wearing all white clothes, what 'real' farmer did that? Maybe he had a little patch of weed growing behind the barn. lol
 
As a Vietnam era vet I do take offense to the term hippy used when talking about tractors since the hippy came about due to the Vietnam war and how we should not have been in it and the fact so many died because of being in it
 
Dad invented the blue Ford. In the late 50s,he painted a 9N a blue color that was pretty close to the one that ford eventually used.
 
ooh, they were just people that didnt fit into society and society named them hippies. "coool man" !
just as these tractors that dont fit in. lol. kinda related.
lots of other garbage at times that dont fit in here also.
he's just an old hippie and dont know what to do, should he hang onto the old or grab onto the new.
 
Seen either a Ford or a Ferguson painted JD colors. I think they were hoping it would bring more money ? LOL.
 
Ya over there a Ford would be found on the road dead or is that found in the rolling dunes dead. But either way yep the Toyota is common place in the mid east and Africa
 
What about those that lived in a commmune especially a farming one . i know of one today that uses an 8n ford and hayloader they been going at it a long time peace man ✌
 
Ah but your talking about something else. Ya they may have tractors but they do not refer to them as a Hippy tractor they are just tractors my point is th term HIPPY being in this case used as an offensives term at least to this Vietnam era D.A.V.
 
Have seen a JD painted Farmall red. And a Farmall painted JD green & yellow. Neither one looked good, although paint jobs were well done. Just plain ugly!
 
Have seen a couple pink Fords, or maybe that was the same one come back to haunt me. UGGGLLEE!! I don't need to have a pink tractor around to remind me of B cancer. (Literally just got home with wife from her oncologist appointment.)
 
To a point yes but the hippy's where call just that because they did not believe in the Vietnam war and protested the war. Calling a tractor a hippy tractor is offensive
 
I remember the saying rich mans war poor mans fight . i oppose all wars and if any peacefull means can be used to stop them thats ok with me. because in the end its the rich that dont do the dying its the poor people all anyone really wants is a better life for there children if you are willing to provide that usually theres a lot less bloodshed look up the hearts and minds policy of the British they one there vietnam that way . but does this make me a hippie ? I would hate to trade in my Carhartts
 
But let's be clear,you yourself didn't fight in Viet Nam did you? You're a year younger than me and the draft ended just days before my 18th birthday. The war was all but over by then.
 
The word hippy was in reference to the use of a bright pastel color the owner painted his tractor. No need to get upset about it. We all know what he meant and it was a pretty good reference at that. He did say he was thinking back to the 70s. Who knows, maybe the owner drives it around wearing a tie-dyed outfit and smokes his own "brand".
 
This tractor was done and is owned by a former marine who is very proud of the fact. Sorry I don't have a better picture of it. As you can tell, it was set up to honor veterans and their service. There is a lot of additional lettering on it that the photo does not show. I don't think I would call this a hippie tractor!

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With me is is my generation and back in the day and I guess even today some would have called ma hippie. Matter of fact due to me having long hair in my high school I set a presidecce SP so now they cannot force the kids in that school to cut there hair because I graduated with hair half way down my back or so. It ha been over a decade since I had a hair cut. But my hair is only down to my shoulder and stopped getting longer. My draft card came up 1-A in 1974 so I joined the Navy so this is the reason I take offense to calling a tractor a Hippy tractor
 
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he's just an old hippie and dont know what to do, should he hang onto the old or grab onto the new.
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GREAT song! 8)
 
A long long time ago I was high school. Our Ag class toured the IH plant at Moline IL. 60 series tractors in production. We were told you could order a new tractor in any of 400 possible colors.
 
Hippy and the color have nothing to do with the term hippy and being from that generation referring to such is offensive to me. At one time many would have called me a hippie due to how long my hair was. Then when my draft card came up 1-A I joined the Navy so the term hippy or hippie have a lot of memory to me and what it stands for
 
Sorry but the draft shut down while I was in Boot camp and those who joined around my time where in fact refereed to Vietnam era vet and many where in because of Vietnam. Had I not joined I would very likely to have been drafted and I did in fact get a draft notice but they where to late I had already signed paper with the Navy. That time of my life I kept up on what was going on due to being in high school and the treat of the draft so I joined to be sure I could go where I wanted not where the gov wanted me to go. Plus when I was in high school many would have called me a hippie due to how long my hair was so again referring to a tractor as a hippy tractor is offensive to me
 
I think hippy tractor fits perfect with the original post description, just like a VW van painted up psychedelic colors is a hippy van.
 
I was in the Army from '72 to '74 and maybe I missed something but I think of H's as free love, no work, and drugs. They did not like the war but they didn't like anything other then free love and drugs. Maybe I missed something. The van I drove while in the army had hippy paintings on the sides. Sorry if you are offended but I don't see it myself.
 
Hennessey Imp in Dodgeville has a Farmall Super C painted Ford blue. He is a Ford/New Holland dealer and uses it for moving equipment on the lot with fast hitch and a 4 foot long drawbar pin.
 
I'm a Vietnam combat vet that was actually there in 71 & 72 with the 196th infantry. As a fellow veteran I appreciate your service but having said that, I don't understand getting in a "wad" over the word hippie in this post. You obviously don't have enough to get uptight about if this is all you have. Lighten up!
 
(quoted from post at 14:35:34 01/24/17) The word hippy was in reference to the use of a bright pastel color the owner painted his tractor. No need to get upset about it. We all know what he meant and it was a pretty good reference at that. He did say he was thinking back to the 70s. Who knows, maybe the owner drives it around wearing a tie-dyed outfit and smokes his own "brand".
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In conservative South Dakota, any manboy with long hair was called a hippie :D
 
(quoted from post at 08:00:44 01/25/17) I'm a Vietnam combat vet that was actually there in 71 & 72 with the 196th infantry. As a fellow veteran I appreciate your service but having said that, I don't understand getting in a "wad" over the word hippie in this post. You obviously don't have enough to get uptight about if this is all you have. Lighten up!
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Only a true hippy would get all strung out about it. By 1974 a few 18 year old's were wanna be hippy's, They missed the boat and were to young to be part of the 60's hippy life style. What few that were left were into drugs and not my kind of folk.

Long hair had nuttin to do with it, it did not make you a hippy.
 

Had to thank about long hair below the shoulders and down the back.

One thang is for sure you did not work on cars it would get caught in the creeper wheels. :evil:
 
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Had to thank about long hair below the shoulders and down the back.

One thang is for sure you did not work on cars it would get caught in the creeper wheels. :evil:
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That's why they invented the "man bun" LOL!
 
aFORDable hello there, I was with the 196th light infantry brigade too but I was there in 1966.Saw combat was there only for about 6 months,got wounded and was sent to state side,
 
How in the world is calling a tractor a hippy offensive???? I've heard tractors called a lot worse than that and no one was offended. I suppose you invented the definition/Lifestyle?
 
Hey brother. We were in the Danang, Hue area. We closed the ground war out and was on a plane back to the states on Aug. 13, 72. Do you go to any reunions of the 196th.? One in Louisville this year.
 
Has to do with time time of things and what being a hippy was so unless you grew up in that time and also in that life you do not and can not understand
 
First off many hippies did in fact work and also go to collage but referring to a tractor and it in it self being hippy I cannot see that since a tractor and a hippy had almost nothing to do with each other. So if you did 2 years that also means you did 4 years in the reserves CORRECT??????????????????????????
 
The brake drums on my JD 50 turned blue when I went over a big hill with a big load of hay behind me. One of my foolish moments. I guess it burns the yellow out of the green.

My knuckles also turned white that day. . .
 
Sometimes I have to scratch my head.


"U.S. military draft ends, Jan. 27, 1973. On the day in 1973, as the Vietnam War drew to a close, the Selective Service announced that there would be no further draft calls."
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While I appreciate anyone's service a Vietnam era vet is not a Vietnam Vet, especially in 1974 which was after the U.S. ground war was over in 1972. A Vietnam era vet could have been stationed in Hawaii, still serving their country in an important role but a far cry from being in Vietnam. Let's not confuse the two.
 
Yes I've been to 3 off them, and I am going this year too.Maybe we can get together and have a drink.I was in Tay Ninh ,they call us the boat people,LOL
 
I've seen that, too. The tractors in the OP were deliberately done in the off colors versus a poor quality paint or application job.
 
Oliver green right from the factory seemed to do that. It seemed to have something to do with being exposed to petroleum products and the sun combined.
 
Until this thread I had never even heard the term Vietnam era vet. Linking service to a conflict you didn't serve in is kinda weak.
 
My wife is an amateur artist/painter. She thought the all gray paint on the Ferguson tractor was boring, so she came up with a gray, merlot, blue, black, polished aluminum, and a little bit of gold scheme for my Ferguson. Rustoleum supplied most of the colors.
We like the way it turned out. :)
BillL









 
You are right on. It was known as Operation Gimlet and included a company of infantry and a battery of artillery. I was in that group. One can read about it on the web under Operation Gimlet, Vietnam. We closed out on Aug. 10 turning it over to the Arvins and left VN on the 13. I had been in country 11 months. The major networks filmed the last artillery round fired, (a WP) and the last of the 196th. was taken back to Danang for stand down. We were told we were the last U.S. combat unit to leave.
 

Has anyone ever noticed that for years and years no one wanted anything to do with us Viet Nam vets, then when people started treating us as if were we also humans, everyone wanted to be connected to us. Thus the Viet Nam era vet.
 

OH, I Hate it when I do that, too...!!!

The road next to me has hills we call "the 7 Hills"..

When I was in my early teens, I took 2 flat-bed wagons full of ear corn over them..

Idled over the top and layed on the brakes all the way down and that JD "B" was poping and back-firing and over-reving but we got to the bottom of the biggest one..THEN starts what I remember MOST..!!

Those JD "B" of ours always had straight Pipes and I hit that 1st ( biggest) Grade with ALL she had..and she started to raise Hel?..!!!

( This B I still have and was bored + 180" in about 1958)

I never thought it would pull those 2 loads over that one, without going to 2ns if I ever had to stop...BUT,,

About 1/2 way up that hill, the rhythm of the engine reached that one spot where the FRONT of the tractor was bouncing up with every power stroke..!!

Made it over like a Champ and still in 6th gear..!!

Boy I bet those people that lived there would remember that...( and it was NOT the only time we traveled that way)..
 
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