Black upholstered flip up rail seat for an "M" ava

Patrick HMD · Jan 13, 2013

I've searched and searched and all I see is silver, and red and white two-tone. A bit too fashionable for my tastes. The only black ones I see are the regular 4 bolt pans.

From looking at old pictures, it seems that black was the original color. I may be wrong there but that's the color I want, the color I need. Anyone?

TIA
Patrick
'49M

IH fan · Jan 13, 2013

I don't know about an M, but our '49 C and '54 SC were both silver. Difference was the C had no padding and the SC had about 1/2" of padding, but both silver and both were bought new.

MisterT · Jan 13, 2013

(quoted from post at 22:43:28 01/13/13) I've searched and searched and all I see is silver, and red and white two-tone. A bit too fashionable for my tastes. The only black ones I see are the regular 4 bolt pans.

From looking at old pictures, it seems that black was the original color. I may be wrong there but that's the color I want, the color I need. Anyone?

TIA
Patrick
'49M

Black canvas was original on the early Farmalls. Don't know when the change was made, but eventually silver canvas was standard.

CNKS · Jan 13, 2013

I have seen a picture on this forum, or Red Power Magazine of early C's with black seats, maybe Jim Becker will read this. However my dad had a late 47 H with a silver seat -- C's came out in 48, so there is some confusion as to when silver replaced black.

WA40 · Jan 13, 2013

pre 1950 were black, 1950 and newer were silver, Darrell Darst can recover your original in black.

Jim Becker · Jan 14, 2013

A service bulletin, dated 10/14/49 was titled "New covering material for upholstered seats Farmall & wheel tractors" and "New covering material for upholstered seats crawler tractors". I don't know the content, just the title. I presume it addressed the color change. Sometimes, bulletins cover items that have long-since changed. Others were out before the change. That is all I know related to the color change.

I have posted a picture from WHS in the past. It is from Loiusville in 1948 and the seat coverings are all black.

Patrick HMD · Jan 14, 2013

(quoted from post at 21:35:36 01/13/13) pre 1950 were black, 1950 and newer were silver, Darrell Darst can recover your original in black.

Is there any contact information available on Darrell Darst? I'd sure would like to talk to him.

Thanks

Patrick
'49M

Farmallhal · Jan 14, 2013

Darrell's contact information is: Darrell Darst, 18324 Monroe Road 1073, Madison, MO 65263, phone (660) 291-8742 (evenings) and his email is: [email protected] Hope this helps and he does a great job looking just like a new original canvas seat pan, Hal.

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