Wheel Horse Blue

[shardisty 10]

I recently got a 1966 L 156 to restore. My family use to have wheel horses and that’s all my father owned to do yard work. As I was talking to him he said in the early years wheel horse tractors use to be blue and not red. Does anybody know when this occurred or what models were blue? With restoring/customizing it to my liking I’m thinking about painting it blue to bring back that, and do something different. Would anybody know what blue code or color of blue it would be? Like a blue ford? I’ve tried looking it up and can’t finding anything on it. 

[ebinmaine 67,221]

 

To the best of my knowledge there were no factory painted blue Wheelhorses.

Some were grey.

 

There were municipalities that had them different colors.

 

[The Tuul Crib 7,336]

The only blue we would now would 

be the ford brand .

[SylvanLakeWH 25,485]

 

No blue that I’m aware of...

 

only red and grey (workhorses)...

[Daddy Don 905]

[oliver2-44 9,675]

[WHX?? 48,751]

Dad must be thinking of another brand. All were either red or grey but there are rare ones out ther that reported to be factory painted an industrial yellow for muncipallities.

[lynnmor 7,302]

Here is a blue one:

[Terry M-(Moderator) 2,175]

I thought I remember some Wheel Horse tractors painted Blue and rebadged under another Brand Name...

[Terry M-(Moderator) 2,175]

This is where I saw the blue tractors.....Post #6

 

 

[Achto 27,502]

 

Above were shown the only factory blue 's that I remember. I almost forgot about the New Holland branded Toro/Wheel Horses.

[adsm08 2,016]

Maybe they are just sad.

[Stepney 2,325]

"I'm feeling a little blue .. which isn't so hot when your red"

Blue .. I feel like very early WH's were red with green lettering. But never saw blue. I have seen early RJ's painted in a cat yellow livery for municipalities. Not sure on the historical side of it.. but I know of one original one in that color. 

Otherwise. I can only refer to New Holland/WH blue of the 1990s. Obviously not what your dad is thinking of. 

Ford, Springfield, Burns, and Panzer all came in blue .. and from a distance perhaps could be mistaken for a WH. 

[shardisty 10]

Thank you all for the comments. I really do appreciate it! He could’ve mistaken it from another brand if no logos or decals were on. Yellow is a different take for sure. I forgot about the greys ones. I haven’t seen one in like twenty years. I’m ready to start fix this little thing up. Mainly for my daughter to drive when she grows a little bit bigger!

[Herder 2,354]

Wait there's hope! I have the one In a million.

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Just kidding.  It was red some many, many years ago.   Shardisty. 

[WHX?? 48,751]

Please tell us you saved that one @Herder! Looks to be the coveted 701 by the belt guard and rear fender struts! !

[The Tuul Crib 7,336]

4 hours ago, shardisty said:

Thank you all for the comments. I really do appreciate it! He could’ve mistaken it from another brand if no logos or decals were on. Yellow is a different take for sure. I forgot about the greys ones. I haven’t seen one in like twenty years. I’m ready to start fix this little thing up. Mainly for my daughter to drive when she grows a little bit bigger!

Good dad!! Get the youngins involved 

now ! She looks happy!!

 

[Pullstart 62,762]

On 9/23/2019 at 12:35 PM, shardisty said:

Thank you all for the comments. I really do appreciate it! He could’ve mistaken it from another brand if no logos or decals were on. Yellow is a different take for sure. I forgot about the greys ones. I haven’t seen one in like twenty years. I’m ready to start fix this little thing up. Mainly for my daughter to drive when she grows a little bit bigger!

 

That Wheel Horse sure looks like it’s a patina’d work of art!  You might find that wet sanding with either soapy water or WD-40 will cut the rust and bring out the red!

[Stormin 9,981]

Here's another blue one.

 

 

 

[WHX?? 48,751]

I don't believe that pic is in my (3rd) edition???  Have to go look now!

 

  Norm that's just not right! That one is trying to molt and get it's red back!

[WHNJ701 4,165]

if you use the negative feature on photo editor you can turn a red tractor blue!!

[CasualObserver 3,408]

That just looks like a Wheel Horse pretending to be a Panzer.    Hrmmm... maybe that's how Panzer came up with their paint scheme?

[WHNJ701 4,165]

40 minutes ago, CasualObserver said:

That just looks like a Wheel Horse pretending to be a Panzer.    Hrmmm... maybe that's how Panzer came up with their paint scheme?

and it works to turn a panzer red!

[Stormin 9,981]

 That Panzer photo' looks fantastic.