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I saw an M in an old barn today and it had a white grill and white on
the side of the hood back to the fuel tank. Was that ever an
original paint scheme for an M? There was also a Super M with a
loader, an H and a Super H along with a bunch of other 40's and
50's era equipment sitting right where the guy left them in the old
barn when he quit farming with them 20+ years ago. He said that
he wants to hold on to them for now (meaning forever). Some day
there will be a heck of a sale there.
 
Could possible be a Demonstator M. IH made White Demonstator Ms and such and sold them to the dealers in the late 1940's. Sounds like a nice collection. To bad he won't sell yet!
-David Goode
 
Only SA's, Cs and Cubs were painted white, First 1/4 of the 1950 production. Others could be painted any color if ordered that way. The M was preked up with a X50 style paint job by the owner, or a dealer making it seem newer. Kind of a badge engineering tactic. JimN
 
I tried to buy an F-14 from an old fella once. It had a tree growing up through the drawbar, the old fella was about 80 or better, was walking with a walker, said he wanted to hang on to it as he was going to fix it up some day.

It's hard for those old timers to give it up sometimes. I guess the are afraid if the give up on their abilities to fix or work, then its all over.


Gene
 
(quoted from post at 18:29:20 10/27/08) Could possible be a Demonstator M. IH made White Demonstator Ms and such and sold them to the dealers in the late 1940's. Sounds like a nice collection. To bad he won't sell yet!
-David Goode
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Nope. No demonstrator M's.
mike
 
When the brand new Farmall 450 was introduced, that white grille and white on the hood made the tractor look totally different from the solid red 400, Super M, and the M. It was quite simple to repaint those older tractors to resemble the brand new, flashy, red and white 450, and quite a few owners and dealers made the up-grade. I've seen quite a few Ms and even Hs with the white paint treatment. I'm thinking of doing an H that way myself. No, it wouldn't be correct, but it would be historical.
 

rusty is 100000000% correct on this. Either a farmer liked the way the white grille looked on the 450s and painted his M to match, or the dealer did it when the tractor was traded in on a 450 so it would look more modern.

Frankly, I don't think it looks very good. A 450 has body lines where the white panels begin and end so it looks like they belong. On an M, you're just masking off a random area and painting it white... The 600/650's grille and hood were identical to the W9, and it just looked plain dumb with the chrome emblems in place of the decals, and then they added the white panels... butt ugly. Makes an otherwise handsome tractor look like someone painted graffiti on it.
 
Some adds for 1939 Ms show light colored grille (black and white pictures) some say these were prototype tractors and that light colored grilles never made it to regular production tractors.
 
(quoted from post at 06:04:54 10/28/08)
Frankly, I don't think it looks very good. A 450 has body lines where the white panels begin and end so it looks like they belong. On an M, you're just masking off a random area and painting it white... The 600/650's grille and hood were identical to the W9, and it just looked plain dumb with the chrome emblems in place of the decals, and then they added the white panels... butt ugly. Makes an otherwise handsome tractor look like someone painted graffiti on it.
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As they say.... "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." Just because you don't like it doesn't mean someone else can't.
mike
 
I agree that the red and white letter series look terrible, as the color does not blend in at all. The white on the 650, though is a somewhat different scheme, at least on the hood and looks ok to me. Something about if it came from the factory that way it looks ok, if it is an imitation it looks cheap. All a matter of an individual's opinion.
 
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