Posted by ScottyHOMEy on July 23, 2009 at 09:07:48 from (70.105.245.208):
In Reply to: CUB posted by farmalman on July 23, 2009 at 05:20:04:
mkirsch is spot on. They were red, red and red from the factory, with the exception of the rims. All that was masked off were things like the gauges, the ring on the steering wheel, and electrical connections. No real effort was made to mask off the radiatior which usually ended up as what I call black with red overspray.
The only black paint on mine is the cover on my cutout relay which was black when I got it, and very likely a replacement like the starters mkirsch referred to.
My mag has the only other black, the distributor cap and coil cover. In the case of the mag, I read somewhere about some sort of electrically neutral lacquer that was used on the aluminum body of the mag. Left it just polished with a clear lacquer coating, and painted the base at the drive end red.
So it's your choice. Any color you want. If you want it to look like it did when it left the factory, red. But there's nothing wrong with making it look like a well-maintained tractor that's had the starter or other parts replaced. And, while I don't think it's something I'd do, I don't fault the fella that would paint one pink for his wife. Your tractor, your choice.
I've got them both lent out right now so I'm not sure about the latter, but Ken Updike has a book dedicated to the Cubs that has a lot of good information and pictures you could use for reference, and I think (not sure) that Guy Fay's Originality Guide for the letter series Farmalls has some on Cubs, as well. Both are published by MBI, pretty widely available, and make a nice part of a collector's library.
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