jasonIH450
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Seen a 1957 450 ser. 15760 is it at all possible that that tractor could have been painted form factory all red - no white on hte grill or hood?
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I am told that all 400 left the plant all red. and the 350 450 all left the plant with the white grill and side pannel. the reason for some of them being diferent is that the dealer had left over model 300 and 400 when the 350 and 450 came out. It was harder to sell the all red than the fancy looking red and white so most of the time the 300 400 were painted the white grill and side pannel by the dealer.
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The white on the 50 series hoods was not paint. It was a white sticker/decal thing. The grille was painted.
A lot of folks put them on the 00 series cause they liked them. Some of them got snagged or scratched and folks just took them off. They pulled off real easy when new.
There were a lot of repaints done back then (dad did his 450D) and the white was left off due to cost and avalibality. He told me once...that white side don't make it run one bit better.
Just my 2 cents.....
A lot of folks put them on the 00 series cause they liked them. Some of them got snagged or scratched and folks just took them off. They pulled off real easy when new.
There were a lot of repaints done back then (dad did his 450D) and the white was left off due to cost and avalibality. He told me once...that white side don't make it run one bit better.
Just my 2 cents.....
jasonIH450
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How do I go about finding out if it was a custom ordered paint job from factory?
Thanks for your help guys!
Thanks for your help guys!
The best way to find out a ton about your tractor is to buy a John Deere :lol: They kept awesome records from the factory. They can tell you what options it came with and where it was shipped by what method.
International didn't really keep track of serial numbers with custom paint or even how many ___ (insert 9 speed, lp, etc) tractors were made/converted.
Invent a time machine that follows your tractor back through time to the factory... You probably won't get past the mid 1960's, though because at some point you'll see a guy with a spray gun sucking fresh red paint off a ratty-looking tractor with white side panels and grill.
Seriously that's probably the only, unrealistic, way of finding out for sure. They didn't have computer record keeping like we do now, and IH didn't keep records of what got painted what color(s). Heck, even in 1970, when paper record keeping technology had been perfected, IH wasn't keeping track, which opens the doors for a lot of fake gold demonstrators...
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