A neighbor a few miles from me once painted his B John Deere Volkswagen blue. With a stiff brush. Free paint. It was a pitiful looking thing. Kinda gave it a dejected look. The old B met it's demise when he hooked a one bottom walking plow to the cultivator lift arms, then caught the plow on a root in some newly cleared ground. His eight year old son was driving the tractor, and as it reared up, the boy stepped out on the left axle housing until the hood went by him, then jumped off in front. Dad was almost caught under the tractor because he was so busy screaming at son to jump, that he forgot to run himself. Whenever I see an off-color tractor, I think of old Delmar and his blue John Deere.
Which reminds me - years ago I was repainting my 630 JD, so where did I go for paint? John Deere, of course. I think the cans cost as much as the paint, with their fancy paint jobs and silkscreened labels. Imagine my surprise when I opened the cans and they were dark blue! I took them back and the counter guy noisily got a laugh, saying I needed to stir it because the yellow was on the bottom. I told him to show me (and the crowd that had gathered). The more he stirred, the bluer it got. The only color change was in his face - it turned red. Turned out that all of his JD green paint was blue, save for one or two cans with different lot numbers. That counter guy was a good man and knew the old 2 cylinder tractors from front to back, but he was stymied that day on his paint.
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