Actually those thoughts of "better days" often aren't. The mind has a tendency to forget the bad parts and only remember the good. My BIL was talking about the good ole days. Yet I remember him, working his butt off all the time. I look at this 63 year old man who can't hardly walk because of that. I can see him now, in that hay field, just south of Vining MN, about 9AM on the 4th of July 1972. Irate that his dad had said we had to bale hay and he wanted to take the day off. It was him, Ken and me. His dad was finishing up feeding and would join us. Just another "good ole day" on the farm! That's why so many of the farm kids graduated high school and left to chase other careers only coming back to the farm to visit and hunt. Because of those "better days". My memories of better days was being 4-5 with NO responsibilities trying to move the world one Tonka dozer blade at a time while wearing holes in the knees of my jeans. A few short years later I was helping out (suburb kid) mowing lawn and weeding garden while my friends played ball in the street. Me swearing up and down that my dad hated me and longing to join my friends. Had to help with mom's flower gardens too. I hate flowers to this very day. 50 and a half decades later. No, I don't regret it. I learned to work and that family comes first. But I sure didn't like it at the time.
Now I know that people tend to like tractors they grew up on. I drove a tractor the first time at 16. Both a MM U and a Farmall Super C. The next year Farmall 560D's an 826 and 2 JD's, an R and a B. I think that's why I tend to like the tractors of the 60's and 70's so well. As far as paint goes? I could care less. Paint it how you want to.
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