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Keith True

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I think there's a word for performing this act,but I can't think what it would be.
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I have a neighbor farmer that is so JD that he bought a 85thousand dollar kinze 28 row planter and spent over 4 thousand and two months tearing it down and painting it JD paint. I am sure it planted better to him..LOL Poor little cub must feel out of place
 
I was sent this picture by a friend asking if I did this.I painted one like that in 80 or 81,and I still hear about it.I painted a 720 diesel for a friend,and he had bought a gallon of single stage urethane.He pretty much bleeds and pees green,so he asked if I would paint his dads A Culti-vision with the leftover paint.It came out perfect and I've never heard the end of it,even 40 years later.Those two tractors in the picture are cuuently for sale somewhere in Maine.
 
If it was the other way around it would be called stolen valor. In this example, rank demotion is the preferred term.
 
Henry Gilbert that owned a JD dealership at Orange VA had an AC G he worked his garden with that was located out from his pace that could be seen from the road.Painted the G JD green so people wouldn't know he worked his garden with an AC.
 
There was a purpose behind this idea, as evidenced by adding the decal. It wasn't just using up left-over paint.

I had a friend who painted his JD B with left-over Volkswagen blue paint. It was a dismal thing to look at, and I hate to admit that I was kinda relieved when he and his young son flipped it backward and sent it to the big scrapyard in the sky. [No injuries, but it was a close call] I cringed every time I saw that poor thing.
 
I may paint a Farmall purple..... But never JD green or Allis orange..... I did talk to an old guy one time , painted his Farmall A JD colors. Stickers and all, I asked why, he said to impress the rich , single, neighbor lady. She thought JD was a more expensive tractor. He mowed his lawn with it for years.
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Well I guess if you can't afford a John Deere this could be a little closer. I have seen 2N,8N and 9N fords painted every color there was. Tom
 
Local Ford dealer has a Super C painted blue for a yard tractor. Fast hitch drawbar with a 4 foot hitch pin can move equipment around without leaving the seat.
 
There is a Farmall A here that is white.(I think it's an A) It's still in the same family since it was bought new,less than a mile from the dealer.Every couple of years one of the family members will see me and ask if I will get it fired up for them,but they never quite get around to actually doing it.I asked why they painted it white,they all say it came that way.It has never been left out in the weather since day one.Im not a Farmall historian,were some painted white for some reason? Somewhere around 1980 they painted the Cub Cadets red,it was kind of odd,it just wasn't what we were used to seeing.Kind of looking at the silver Wheelhorses,it's just wrong.
 
the internationals that were painted white came from the Louisville plant and were demonstrator models
 
My neighbor liked to have his equipment painted but was a little cheap. He would go to NAPA and ask for their paint mixing mistakes. Some stuff looked pretty good, others not so much. We never did a tractor.
 
I was going to reply to the every color comment in the above line item with even purple and as I was thinking about it your purple B (to which I was going to refer) came up. I'd never do that to a relic, but its yours and none of my business.
 
With respect to the color purple: I needed to repaint one of my bathrooms years ago and was tired of the basic colors and heir pastels. I thought about it and came up with purple. Went to the paint store and got some purple. Got home and as I was painting the first wall, I just got into it and realized that I had made a horrible mistake.

So I went back to the basic white and it took 3 coats of white to get that purple covered adequately. Never again.
 
Brand Reassignment Surgery?

Kidding aside, it's their tractor, and obviously done with care and respect, both for its original look and its new one, so I for one can't fault their efforts. Must cause a lot of double-takes at shows!
 
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