Changing Colors

[bczygan]

Would you change the iconic color of a tool?

Would you paint a John Deere tractor purple?

Have you done such a thing?

Show off your off color tools and machines...

Or is this blasphemy?

Bill

 

[pendragon1998]

I saw this on ebay. It was...disturbing, to say the least!

 

[bczygan]

I saw this on ebay. It was...disturbing, to say the least!

Are you SURE that it was never made in that color?

Should it have been red?

Bill

 

[bczygan]

Would you change the iconic color of a tool?

Would you paint a John Deere tractor purple?

Have you done such a thing?

Show off your off color tools and machines...

Or is this blasphemy?

Bill

Someone did!

Bill

 

[bczygan]

Is a pink one a sacrilege?

 

[bushmechanic]

Those two are in better condition than most of the green ones out there.

Screw the color. At least they are in good shape. Nothing sacrilegious about restoring something and laying a thin coat of your favorite color on it.

I'll soon be painting a fancy GM engine gray, rather than orange.

Ooooohhh... The horror.

That said, when I see a nailhead any other color than that hospital green... I wonder what the owner was thinking. LMAO

 

[Zeke]

At one time Mary Kay of the namesake cosmetics industry drove a pink Porsche 911. I could never ever admire something like that. I know I didn't address the question directly but I do have a WWII era Jeep painted bright red. Porsche red to be exact. Now that was OK for the CJ2 sold to the public as they did come in red. I don't know how the purists (the ones that would only have a John Deere in JD green) would feel about the Jepp not being Army green.

However, this particular Jeep was deployed as a Navy Jeep and was originally Navy gray. I've only seen one original Navy gray Jeep and the seats were white canvas. This is not it, just a pic of many on Google.

What do you think?

 

[BK13]

I have a tendency to paint my (work) hammers and machetes with pink surveyor marking paint for visibility....

 

[jd_1138]

I always sort of thought Ferraris look strange in any other color than red:

 

[jeremy v]

Is a pink one a sacrilege?

There was a guy that lived near me that had a pink vintage tractor that sat permanently parked out in his yard. I found out that his wife died of breast cancer. He is a vintage tractor lover (and was a tractor repairman by trade) so he painted one of his personal tractors pink and left it out by the road for all to see. He also drove it in parades for breast cancer awareness as his way of honoring his late wife.

 

[jeremy v]

I saw this on ebay. It was...disturbing, to say the least!

I never knew Channellock made hand drills, I'm going to have to keep my eye out for one.

 

[humber2]

I always sort of thought Ferraris look strange in any other color than red:

Are the Friesans wishing the car had white patches all over?

 

[dutchgray]

Don't bother me, its only paint.
It is a shame when someone paints over good original paint on something really old because you can never get that aged look back.

 

[brownsmustang]

While I personally do not care I think it can kill the resale value of it. I've seen so many items modified to fit the owner and the owner swears it should add value regardless of how bad it looks.

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[hotdogstand]

^ That. I was restoring a '77 Corvette with a friend last year. He wanted to go crazy with it, red and black interior, paint the engine a non-stock color, everything had to be "cool." As we had purchased the car to fix up and resell (it was worthless when we picked it up), I told him the more you change, the fewer buyers you'll have left. Not everybody wants a pink John Deer...

 

[Zeke]

There was a guy that lived near me that had a pink vintage tractor that sat permanently parked out in his yard. I found out that his wife died of breast cancer. He is a vintage tractor lover (and was a tractor repairman by trade) so he painted one of his personal tractors pink and left it out by the road for all to see. He also drove it in parades for breast cancer awareness as his way of honoring his late wife.

Very cool. In that respect I totally agree with the paint scheme.

 

[Blazinzuk]

I can't live by your rules man!!!!!!

I have favorite colors among them orange and purple. I paint lots of stuff these colors.


I really could care less what was original, unless I do.

 

[1982fxr]

i did this once...

 

[7th Kahuna]

I've seen a handful of pink tools over the years. Tools can always be repainted. Better pink than rusting away in a field and if a pink vise got my future daughter into the shop to spend time with dad, pink it would be.

I agree however, when a classic car in original paint gets chopped up or repainted to suit the whims of an owner more interested in the show than the car, in my book, that's not right. Unfortunately, I don't get to write the rules.

 

[torqueman2002]

 

[countryroad82]

I'm the guy that would take an all original Model A straight out of the museum and in the parking lot take a sawzall to the roof, only a small piece of me would die as I done it. So with that said do you think colors bother me? It's just paint.

 

[09zkrankin]

I'm the guy that would take an all original Model A straight out of the museum and in the parking lot take a sawzall to the roof, only a small piece of me would die as I done it. So with that said do you think colors bother me? It's just paint.

Im with this guy, chopped and channeled lol

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[kctyphoon]

I don't think people would mind so long as it looked good.. I bought a grizzly band saw and couldn't stand the ugly green when most of my other big things were delta grey. Few coats of spray paint later it's a lot easier to look at, but I wouldn't call grizzly green an iconic color either..

 

[rockinacummins]

John Deere needs to be green...

 

[jd_1138]

Are the Friesans wishing the car had white patches all over?

So those are Friesan cows? I bet their milk is sweet and delicious.

 

[pendragon1998]

Are you SURE that it was never made in that color?

Should it have been red?

Bill

That's a Millers Falls hand drill. Yes, they were all red and black. The one in the photo is a restoration.

 

[Lassen Forge]

I'm the other way - a bone stock original car... I could buy 10 parts-builds and restos for what you'd pay for that museum queen. Once an original car is "molested" you've lost something irreplacable, that you could easily sell (to a fool like me) for enough to buy a car that doesn't have that intrinsic value and make it the most awesome street rod in 7 states.

Paint-wise - I've seen fine cars done in an authentic (but incorrect) colors that kicked ****. I have an ancient (and pretty unobtanuim - low serial first year of the 74" engine in Magneto, not JD) Harley that I'm thinking of doing that too (Because the one guy who sells the "correct" paint wants EIGHT HUNDRED dollars a QUART... for modern paint)... An original car, no way, but saying that - it IS your wheels like a modern car, and justlike they did in the 20's - you want it something other than Black, do it and enjoy it!

 

[Dan in Pasadena]

I always sort of thought Ferraris look strange in any other color than red:

"All Ferraris are red regardless of color"

 

[Solpainter]

Painted my 8n Ford blue. I did not like the cream and red. This was owned by the City of Detroit Gulf Club to mow grass. Friend of mine bought it to cut grass then moved back to the city. It was garage kept for its entire life. Not a bit of rust anywhere.

 

[DemoFly]

I always sort of thought Ferraris look strange in any other color than red:

I just had this conversation with my girlfriend.

If I were to buy a Ferrari it would HAVE to be black. I think all Ferraris look better in black than red.

Call me crazy.

 

[1930]

At first I thought this was gonna be another Michael Jackson thread