Industrial cubs

[michael]

A cub buddy has a '77 cub that has original paint and decals. The color is beige and white with an "international" word decal - not the blue stripe. We were wandering if its a special military or industral type cub? He has seen pics of 3 other cubs like this one. Please help us!

[Matt Kirsch]

A picture of this Cub and/or pointers to pictures of the other Cubs you've seen just like it would be helpful.

Could the "beige" be a very faded yellow?

[Eugene]

Post pictures. Might help.

20 years in the military. Farm tractors were normally not initially repainted, just left in their factory paint. After a number of years they could have been repainted. But if they were repainted the color would have been something common to the installation such as yellow, blue, or olive drab, but not beige.

Industrial type Cub color(s), unknown.

[Super A]

It has an hour meter on the side of the hood, different headlights and brackets, and a fire extinguisher.

Al

[michael]

Thanks for the pic Al. Andthe additional infro. Calvin wanted some help with this mistery cub.

[Don McCombs]

Where's the beige?

[Super A]

Where's the beige?

The hood on this tractor is not 901 or 935 white. It is a much more creamy color.


Al

[AL Farmall Boy]

Probably a repaint in the past.

[Super A]

Probably a repaint in the past.

Probably. But there's also white under the beige/yellow. The paint isn't the issue so much as how the Cub is equipped: "International" nameplate, hour meter in the side of the hood, different headlights and posts, fire extinguisher.

Al

[farmallcub49]

They all were 'International' after '64. It should have a decal, but maybe someone pulled the hood off of an earlier model when the 'international' was a stamped metal badge instead of decal? A few more photos would be nice.

[John *.?-!.* cub owner]

The headlights are aftermarket sealed beams, used to be available most anywhere you could buy tractor parts. When was the change made to the shorter breather pipe made? It looks a little out of place on that one.

[Super A]

The headlights are aftermarket sealed beams, used to be available most anywhere you could buy tractor parts. When was the change made to the shorter breather pipe made? It looks a little out of place on that one.

John, we're not so sure. The posts for the lights are different--looks factory, not a cobble job. Lights "fit" the posts. There are several things about this tractor that are just for a lack of a better word different.

Al

[gitractorman]

I'm sorry to say, but most of the things you've pointed out as being unique really point to the tractor (or at least the hood) being rebuilt/replaced at some point in time. If a Cub came from the factory with headlights, they were all the same (based on the year it was produced, there were a few variations). If a Cub came from the factory with emblems, they were also all the same as whatever the production graphics were for the year. No exceptions. I'm sure that a tractor could have been ordered without emblems, or without headlights, and they obviously could have been painted a specific color, but the only examples of specialty painted Cubs are all solid colors (eg., highway yellow, highway orange, military gray, forest service green, etc.). None of the specialty painted cubs were painted two-tone, and in-fact, all of the specialty cub colors included the wheels being painted the same color as the tractor. The "white paint underneath the cream" as you've indicated also really points to a re-paint at some point in time.

Also, anyone can add an hour meter, and I'm fairly certain that a fire extinguisher was never even offered as something to add from the factory. Matter of fact, in my experience dealing with IH products, I do not recall ever installing a fire extinguisher on a new tractor, ever, including tractors that were specifically ordered by factories like Armco Steel.

It's just another example of the creativity by previous owners.

[Jim Becker]

. . . and I'm fairly certain that a fire extinguisher was never even offered as something to add from the factory.

From my experience, fire extinguishers and such things were not on equipment sold to the Army. The Army added that stuff after they got it.