How do you prove it's a Demonstrator?

oldtanker · Aug 23, 2012

Saw this on the Minneapolis CL and it got me to thinking......just how do you prove a tractor that old is really a Demo. I mean any fool can paint a tractor white......

http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/dak/grd/3212985898.html

Rick

Janicholson · Aug 23, 2012

Two items are needed. A group of casting dates that match or exceed the last month or so of 1949, and stop before mid year 1950.
Very clear evidence of unrestored white paint under any other paint, or a picture of it with serial# when new.
Any Farmall (of the series that were Demos, Cub, A,C) I think) could be claimed to be a "real one" as there were no records of the Serial# of those painted white. There may be as many originally red "demonstrators" today as there were originally painted White. Jim

oldtanker · Aug 23, 2012

OK thanks. I kinda figured that a guy could get the right year model tractor and paint it white and claim it's a Demo.

Rick

uncle henry · Aug 23, 2012

cub super a and c date codes 12-any-S to 3-any-T you
are right any fool can paint one white it takes alot
of homework to have the right ones painted the right
colors

CNKS · Aug 23, 2012

Richard Lantis, now deceased, a IH dealer in the 70's and 80's, also son af a IH dealer gave me the serials--he was an expert on those tractors and virtually every other IH tractor. The serials are the first 3 calendar months of 1950 Cub, Super A, C. It is not known whether all were painted white, but nearly all were, possibly with a break or two in those 3 months. Richard drove a white C to a customer at the age of 10 or 12 and was told by his dad to drive in 3rd, he used 4th and almost rolled it going into the customers driveway. Yes you need the serial, casting codes and white under red. Since dealers don't do much when they repaint, things like the front and rear of the battery box, inside the tool box, valve cover, etc are good indications. My restored 1950 white C (it is red now) had all those indications. The one in the ad is horribly over priced, white paint is the only difference.

oldtanker · Aug 23, 2012

OK thanks. I'm not a collector and was just wanting to know. It would have to be gold plated for me to pay 7K for a Super C.

I understand there are some other tell tails on the Gold demos.

Rick

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