Posted by soybeanjoe on November 02, 2009 at 04:11:27 from (66.213.171.108):
In Reply to: White H??? posted by CoopertownBob on November 01, 2009 at 20:17:52:
Here's a picture of one of my SM's that I pictured from a friend who was 2nd owner of the tractor. He purchased the tractor at an auction back in the late '50s. He claimed the tractor was red when he bought it & hadn't been repainted.
When I bought it I noticed patches of white showing thru the old red & this is what I found when I pressure washed it. Underneath the white is a gray primer & the red was painted over the white without a primer. The white is only on the hood, grill, gas tank. The engine, frame rails, transmission, rearend housing & axles are red.
I know the history of the white demostrators & the models that they emcompassed & I'm not claiming this tractor to be one of those. Obviously the tractor was painted white very early in it's life. Whoever done it either took the time to strip the original paint or it was done at the factory, I don't know positively which.
I had an old IH partsman who worked fo a local IH dealership from the early '50s till he retired in the '90s that claims there were several SMs painted this way for a dealer show at the IH proving grounds at Hinsdale, IL in August 1953 then taken to the original Farm Progress Show held in Armstrong, IL in September of that year where they were used to pull "people movers"and then repainted red after that show.. This tractor was sold new by the factory owned stored in Danville, IL which is about 15-20 miles from Armstrong & much of the IH equiment for the show was handled thru that store. Unfortunately I cannot verify this SM is one of those tractors as IH never kept a serial # list of tactors used for special occasions or what colors they were painted. So basically all I have is an old man's faded memory and a couple faded pics from the from the '53 FPS.
There was a short video on one RFD TV a few years taken at the '53 FPS that supposedly showed on of these tractors pulling a "people puller" I contacted RFD about obtaining a copy of the video but the only reply I got was that I would have to purchased the complete series & that they could not verify that the clip I was interested in was even in the video. If anyone has this series of videos I would be interested in obtaing a copy of the segment on the FPS or any information or pics of any SMs painted this way.
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