Posted by CoopertownBob on November 02, 2009 at 19:47:36 from (74.51.5.109):
In Reply to: White H??? posted by Mike CA on November 01, 2009 at 20:17:52:
Mike CA said: (quoted from post at 02:43:41 11/02/09) As Guy Fay said in his Letter Series Originality Guide... IH would paint any tractor any color, as long as it paid. So, maybe it was painted as part of a fleet that was ordered white?
I'm going to venture a guess that it wasn't painted white at the factory, and was repainted to white at some point for some reason. If you are sure it's not a primer you are looking at, and indeed white paint.
Mysterious find, any way you look at it! Too bad you don't have the tractor's history available to help shed some light.
Thanks Mike, I have that same book and considered that possibility as well. I plan on contacting the IH Archives over the winter to see if they can dig up any history on this thing. If I can at least get the original buyer's name and the date of the original retail purchase, that might yield a clue as to what most likely have occurred. I'm thinking that it may just be a primer coat like JJ said. I forget the source right now, but I do remember reading of white H's from about 1940 or so, as an introduction to the first full year's production run, as the letter series models were introduced rather late in 1939. Then there are the 1939 pre-release ads that show the tractors with the wider horizontal grill bars painted white. I may just do that, as I like that look.
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