Posted by LenNH on February 21, 2010 at 06:27:30 from (24.60.236.239):
In Reply to: An All Red 22-36? posted by Tom in Iowa City on February 18, 2010 at 19:25:17:
No doubt factory standard color was gray. Here is a tidbit that might be interesting. Some years ago, I had seen a Farmall in the Henry Ford Museum that had been painted red and labeled "F-20." I wrote the museum about this, describing the differences between the two tractors. The curator wrote me back a nice letter saying that they knew about the problem and were going to restore the tractor to original colors and labeling. They even thought it was a very early model, about 1925. He said that he had heard that some dealers repainted tractors taken in on trade, to make them more appealing, and he said he wouldn't be surprised to learn that some dealers mis-labeled the older tractors. I can tell you from my own experience with the old stuff (I "grew up" on gray IHC tractors, a 10-20, a "Regular," an F-20 and an F-12) that the "new" red stuff looked really great, but that most farmers weren't much interested in the sexiness of their tractors. Work was what mattered. I like authenticity and if it were my tractor, I'd paint it the original color. Still, what could be wrong with "customized" paint? It protects something that every year gets more-and-more scarce.
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