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JBONE2016

02-26-2007 09:30:47




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Why are some "F" series Farmall tractors(F20,F30)painted red and some black. I currently own a 41' H and I would like to purchase and restore an F series tractor. I like the looks of these black farmalls but I would like some history on the paint colors. Thanks for the help.




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Ultradog MN

02-26-2007 15:34:52




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 Re: Black Farmalls in reply to JBONE2016, 02-26-2007 09:30:47  
The CIA ordered several Black Farmalls back in the day. They and the FBI used them to keep an eye on some of them groups like the Wobblies, the Grangers other radical farm and industrial groups.
Of course as the US became less agricultural and more urban, tractors of any color were not so easy to fit into the landscape and were discontinued as spy vehicles.
Nowadays you hear a lot about black Helicopters spying on various nefarious groups.
All just a part of the general modernization of spyware.
I heard somewhere that most of them Black Farmalls were sent along as transport vehicles during the Bay of Pigs.
Of course old Castro snapped them up and repainted them Commie Pink. I guess several of them (like all good Farmalls)are still running and doing usefull work in the cane fields but Fidel is too weak to ride them any more.

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BILL MAR

02-26-2007 15:32:53




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 Re: Black Farmalls in reply to JBONE2016, 02-26-2007 09:30:47  
some of the toys farmalls out there although painted dark grey appear to be black.maybe this is causing some of the confusion.



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Hugh MacKay

02-26-2007 13:17:29




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 Re: Black Farmalls in reply to JBONE2016, 02-26-2007 09:30:47  
Black Farmalls were never part of IH history, must be an ownwers history your looking at.



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John M

02-26-2007 14:10:12




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 Re: Black Farmalls in reply to Hugh MacKay, 02-26-2007 13:17:29  
There was this really rich farmer around here back in the 30s. IH would send him tractors each year, not to mention other equipment. He always had them painted black because somehow they started disappearing, when the ywere painted black they stop wandering off.



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Tom43

02-26-2007 10:11:24




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 Re: Black Farmalls in reply to JBONE2016, 02-26-2007 09:30:47  
Prior to the fall of 1936, Farmalls were painted gray and not red. I don't think I have ever seen a black one.



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mike a. tenn.

02-26-2007 10:40:59




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 Re: Black Farmalls in reply to Tom43, 02-26-2007 10:11:24  
a black tractor in our tenn. summer sun would fix it so you wouldn't do much....man would that be hot! why would anyone even WANT a black tractor? my pick-up is dark green and it'll burn you good if it sits out in the july sun here and you forget and lean against it.

-mike



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Janicholson

02-26-2007 10:10:50




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 Re: Black Farmalls in reply to JBONE2016, 02-26-2007 09:30:47  
IH never painted any tractor entirly black (to the best of my knowledge) There were black stripes on various machines. They would paint any tractor to a customers color, so a black tractor is possible from the factory, but would need some (probably missing paper trail to indicate it was ordered that way. Any tractor any color, It is yours. JimN



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