Demonstrator tractors

[forwhldrv]

I saw the post with the gold truck in it and got thinking. IH had the white Demonstrators in 50 then the Gold ones in the 70’s did other manufacturers have different painted Demonstrators. I know Case has the black knight tractor and a spirit of 76 red,white and Blue tractor but were those demonstrators or just special tractors for the years. Did  any other manufacturers paint tractors differently for demonstrators. 

[Alan Dinan]

I think Oliver painted a tractor purple? It was a 50 or 55 series.

[Big Bud guy]

Only thing JD did was paint a D gold to celebrate their centennial anniversary in 1937.  That tractor exists today  still 

[Alan Dinan]

 

[John Rowehl]

1 hour ago, Alan Dinan said:

I think Oliver painted a tractor purple? It was a 50 or 55 series.

The purple Oliver 1850 was for a sales campaign for their plows, “The Color Blind Plow.” The angle beingthat their plows worked great behind any color tractor;  red, green, blue, yellow, orange….and even purple.

[Alan Dinan]

45 minutes ago, John Rowehl said:

The purple Oliver 1850 was for a sales campaign for their plows, “The Color Blind Plow.” The angle beingthat their plows worked great behind any color tractor;  red, green, blue, yellow, orange….and even purple.

That was talked about in the thread that I brought up, up above!

[Mark (EC,IN)]

What about the Black Knight from Case?

[Tubacase47]

Case had the Golden Demonstrator when the "70" series was introduced or shortly  thereafter.  That was followed by the Black Knight.  The "Spirit of '76' was to commemorate the U.S.  bicentennial.

[Big Bud guy]

I think Ford painted some tractors gold to demonstrate the SOS.  

[Lazy WP]

9 hours ago, Big Bud guy said:

I think Ford painted some tractors gold to demonstrate the SOS.  

Didn’t they make a Golden Jubilee? Was it a demonstrater?

[snoshoe]

54 minutes ago, Lazy WP said:

Didn’t they make a Golden Jubilee? Was it a demonstrater?

1953 NAA was known as the golden jubilee.  They were the same gray and red as the 8N.

[Howard_P]

22 hours ago, Big Bud guy said:

I think Ford painted some tractors gold to demonstrate the SOS.  

Yes, the Select O Speed demonstrators were painted gold.  Supposedly, it was planned to have one for each of their 2000 dealers at the time.

[Big Bud guy]

I’m assuming they made nowhere near 2,000 since they failed right out the door??

[nepoweshiekfarmalls]

12 hours ago, Big Bud guy said:

I’m assuming they made nowhere near 2,000 since they failed right out the door??

If adjusted properly, those transmissions worked fairly well.  Grandpa had an 871 SOS for 25 years and the transmission never needed anything other than adjustments to the bands.

[Big Bud guy]

1 hour ago, nepoweshiekfarmalls said:

If adjusted properly, those transmissions worked fairly well.  Grandpa had an 871 SOS for 25 years and the transmission never needed anything other than adjustments to the bands.

They were like a 560.  After the initial problems were worked out they were fine. 

[td9inidaho]

Like most things, the public is the r&d of new concepts or ideas. Sos off the get go was an ok concept, "basically automatic, gear selective ". But in the beginning, there was a lot of negative around them. Warranted or not. I have an SOS 4000, and used the crap out of it for over 10 years, it's solid, and works just fine.  Now let's talk about the ipto gears in my 1486 ????  Of which I have to split to get back in operational shape 

Mark