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dash color on 400?

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Dan (wi)

01-24-2006 17:44:38




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factory color on 56 farmall 400 dash,IH red or black? if black,is that in gloss,satin...? thanks dan




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bermuda ken

01-25-2006 05:30:50




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 Re: dash color on 400?- - - - - - - look here!! in reply to Dan (wi) , 01-24-2006 17:44:38  
The "Hundred Series Originality Guide" book by Guy Fay tells the correct dash color.

You can buy a copy of it on this site by clicking the links on the top bar of this site.

Check that instead of guessing.



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CNKS

01-25-2006 05:51:55




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 Re: dash color on 400?- - - - - - - look here!! in reply to bermuda ken, 01-25-2006 05:30:50  
Ken, same question for a 460 Utility -- mine was red, but it was a poor quality repaint, think the guy just painted everything red.



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bermuda ken

01-25-2006 06:25:17




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 Re: dash color on 460? in reply to CNKS, 01-25-2006 05:51:55  
The 460-560-660 dash were painted gun metal grey until June of 1960. IH switched them to Satin Black paint after that date.



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CNKS

01-25-2006 17:22:55




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 Re: dash color on 460? in reply to bermuda ken, 01-25-2006 06:25:17  
Thanks -- mine is a 58, don't know what "gun metal gray" looks like. Think I'll use satin black, at least I can guess at that.



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Bill46

01-25-2006 05:08:36




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 Re: dash color on 400? in reply to Dan (wi) , 01-24-2006 17:44:38  
Went to the barn and looked Dan. The 400 is red, the 450D is a dark grey. Both of mine are from dad's heard and have never been painted.



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Hugh MacKay

01-24-2006 19:40:50




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 Re: dash color on 400? in reply to Dan (wi) , 01-24-2006 17:44:38  
Dan: My version would be satin black or real dark gray. I guess depending on your interpretation one could call it either.



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the tractor vet

01-24-2006 19:23:34




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 Re: dash color on 400? in reply to Dan (wi) , 01-24-2006 17:44:38  
400's were a red dash they did not go to the gray-black till the 450



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Mcred

01-24-2006 18:29:54




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 Re: dash color on 400? in reply to Dan (wi) , 01-24-2006 17:44:38  
IH grey most, were painted black when repainted



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Allan in NE

01-24-2006 18:24:27




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 Re: dash color on 400? in reply to Dan (wi) , 01-24-2006 17:44:38  
Neither,

From the factory, they were grey, as I recall it anyways.

Allan



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Levi Keech

01-24-2006 17:59:34




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 Re: dash color on 400? in reply to Dan (wi) , 01-24-2006 17:44:38  
black. gloss probably



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Dan (wi)

01-24-2006 19:36:18




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 Re: dash color on 400? in reply to Levi Keech, 01-24-2006 17:59:34  
it seems the audience is not aggreeing on the color of the dash,come on guys just walk out to the shed and look,dont make me phone a freind,thats my last life line.



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Nat 2

01-25-2006 07:24:52




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 Re: dash color on 400? in reply to Dan (wi) , 01-24-2006 19:36:18  
What makes you think that the dashboards on these tractors are the original color? In 50 years, most of these tractors have been repainted, and in most cases, the painter didn't really care about making the tractor historically correct. They mostly cared about making the tractor not look like kah-kah, or getting a few extra dollars out of it at the auction, so they just slobbered on whatever was convenient.

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migraine

01-24-2006 21:07:54




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 Re: dash color on 400? in reply to Dan (wi) , 01-24-2006 19:36:18  
I have repainted 300, 350, and 400 in last 2 years and went with the original dark gray as I could see it on the edges and the back of the instrument panel. I just pulled my original sales brochures on these 3 tractors and the dash is certainly not red in any of the pictures. I know many of them are now black or red but you asked for original so thats what I'm going with. Migraine



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AJB450

01-25-2006 16:16:45




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 Re: dash color on 400? in reply to migraine, 01-24-2006 21:07:54  
For what it's worth, I have an original Farmall 400 brochure I got in 1955 when my father was purchasing a new 400. The color picture shows what appears to be a gun metal gray dash as Bermuda Ken indicated. I also have a 450 Diesel with the original paint and that too has a dark gray dash. Thus I believe the 400s came from the factory with the dash painted a dark gray.



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