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1955 Farmall Cub color

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M Langan

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I am restoring a 1955 Farmall Cub and when stripping the paint it looks like the tractor may have originally white
How can I find out what color the tractor was originally and are the white ones more rare then the Red ones?
Any help would be appreciated
Thanks for your help
 
Yes, 1955 wouldn't have been originally white.

If you're sanding the paint, the original paint can look white when you get into it.

It could also be gray primer from a repaint that looks white as you sand it. They did not use primer at the factory.
 
I was wrong on the year the serial number is 100557 which looks like it would make it a 1950
Is there any way to determine the month that it was made?
 
You can get a rough idea of month just by taking the beginning serial for 1951, and the beginning serial for 1950, subtracting, and dividing by 12. Add that number to the beginning serial for 1950, and keep adding it until the number you get is higher than your serial. It's not perfect, but it will get you within a month or two.

There are also production records from IH at the Wisconsin Historical Society website. Don't know the link off the top of my head, but the records show things like starting serial number for each month, how many made, etc..

With the serial number you've given, that is the 1022nd Cub made in 1950, and they made over 21,000 Cubs in 1950. Yours was probably made in January 1950, which puts it within the 3-month period when IH was producing white Demo Cubs.
 
With the research that I have done and all of the white paint that we have found on the tractor we are pretty sure that this is a demonstrator
Now the research starts on the proper way to paint it

Thanks for your help
 
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