I kind of like the darker shade, as I remember back in the day (40's) after a few years of use, they seemed to "fade" to a darker red. That's the way I remember my Grand pa's H & M, but that was quite a fews back.
I had a gentleman inform me that Harvester bought paint in 55 gallon drums, back when they would paint gray tractors the top of the barrel would be a bit lighter shade, about half way through the barrel the color would be as ordered, toward the bottom it would get darker, sometimes almost black.
I am sure some shading would occur when they started using red also, I seriously doubt they went about mixing a 55 drum somehow each hour to keep the pigments constant. I have seen a few darker shaded red Farmalls at shows & I really liked it on the number series tractors, really set the chrome numbers, & silver wheels off.
To each his own, I think a bright almost fire engine red is much better than the orange-red some use.
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