Photos: BEFORE and AFTER 48 - 8N

Thanks to the forum you helped walk me through this restoration (My first). The 8N won first place in our town parade (Driven by my 10 yr old grandson).

The 8N (#24342) worked 50 years in the grape vineyard of Central Valley California. I bought it at the end of the harvest and drove it on the trailer to bring home. The BEFORE picture was taken about 10 minutes after unloading at my shop.
Restoration took 5 months and I finished painting the "Ford" script on hood and fenders the night before the parade. Love this tractor. It is exactly like the one I used to clean out barnyards when I was an 8 yr old kid on the farm. That too was 1948. I still had my original 8N key from way back then in my dresser drawer. I used the key to bring the tractor home. Now let's hope this first try at photobucket works. If not I will try and resend.

Jim

Also, I used my power-sprayer and air compressor. I sprayed the cast iron in the garage with plastic sheets hung to form a booth...and I sprayed all the parts in the driveway and hanging from the open garage door.

Paint flowed on beautiful with no runs. I am not sure if I should have used the yellow primer as it may not have been nesessary on the cast metal. Anyway...the finished product won a first prize in town.

Before

After

Very nice job, you can tell you put a lot into it. Very nice sheet metal paint job, I sure wish I could pull off a nice job like that. And, I like the contrasting bolts and nuts, it really sets it off nicely.

Dan

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Good luck,
Scott