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OC: when did ford start the blue and grey paint
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    Posted: 23 Jan 2016 at 4:17pm
I thought it was with the early 2000/3000 but I'm not sure. Did they paint some of the hundreds (600, 700, 800, 900) blue and grey? I've found one that I might go look at and I think it's a 2000 but just want to be more confident. The owners inherited it and don't know. They say it has gas in the oil so I'll be looking at scrap price or a package deal on a C60 dump truck. Any help?
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not sure, but the neighbor bought a new 2000 ford in 1966 and that was the first all blue one I ever seen, I know there were some earlier then that that were trimmed in blue. I know some of the early 2000/3000 tractors were gray trimmed in blue, engine trans. axels were blue and hood, fenders were still gray.
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Ford started with the blue and gray on the thousand series tractors.
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I was thinking it was the early 2000/3000's. Did it turn into something to signify gas or diesel or am I just dreaming that? Maybe to start with the diesels were all blue?
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I've seen blue/gray on the older rounded hooded ones before, maybe some just painted them that way, but have seen several!
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When I worked at a Ford dealer in Atlanta during the 80's we were told that the change was made in January of 1962 when Ford introduced the 4 cylinder 2000 & 4000 tractors, the 6000 Commander wasn't changed until 1963. My boss back then was around when the change was happening and he told us that it was a big move in Fords eyes and dealers were quietly asked to move anything red to the back rows and be sure nothing but blue was seen up front at the dealership. I don't know why, but even though the blue has been
on them for over 50 years, somewhere in my mine I only look at the red ones as old.
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Have heard from Ford owners that when the other tractor mfg came out with new models Ford got caught with nothing to compete with them. So they just painted there tractors blue trying to bluff the customers into thinking it was a new model.
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We had a neighbor that had a red/gray early 6000 and another that had a blue/gray.
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I believe I read somewhere once that the blue + gray color change, which did begin in the early 60's with the 1000 series, was part of the corporation's initial efforts to bring the American line and their British Fordson line together.

British Fordsons were produced in a few different shades of blue over the years with the reddish orange wheels. The final Super Majors and Super Dextas were changed to the Blue and Gray scheme. After their production run ended, the British line dropped the "son" and the new 1000 series was produced on both sides of the pond with little variation. All tractors became the familiar shade of blue with white wheels from that point on .
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The 62-64 4-cylinder 2000 and 4000 were blue and white. These should not be confused with the 1965 and later 3-cyl. tractors which were completely different. The 3-cyl models were derived from the English "Dextra" diesel.
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Originally posted by HaroldOmaha HaroldOmaha wrote:

Have heard from Ford owners that when the other tractor mfg came out with new models Ford got caught with nothing to compete with them. So they just painted there tractors blue trying to bluff the customers into thinking it was a new model.

I've heard that too.
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we have a 2000 -3\cyl' bought new w\loader it's blue with kind of off yellow finders ' white wheels 13.6-28 on rear
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The paint changed in 1962 with the 2000 and 4000 four cylinder tractors .
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I was thinking it was the early 1000's. I havn't heard back from the owner so I guess it doesn't really matter at this point anyway. Thanks everybody for the help
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The color change on the 6000 was when they were recalled and rebuilt. The first 6000's SOS trans just wasn't ready to go to the field. Ford picked them up minus the wheels, replaced the transmissions, repainted the red blue and brought them back.
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"in 62 they painted them blue" that was the saying when I worked at the local Ford tractor dealer. whoever posted that the 2000 & 4000 4 cyl was the first blue tractor they are correct. it made it quite confusing when someone had a 2000 or 4000 but didn't know how many cyl it had. two totally different creatures. the 4 cyl being a blue 600,800 or 900 and the 3 cyl being like the Dexta
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