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Topic: styled/unstyled

Posted By: mhankins
Subject: styled/unstyled
Date Posted: 15 May 2019 at 8:57am

Keep seeing references to styled tractors.

What designates this?

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Posted By: eryanh
Date Posted: 15 May 2019 at 10:25am

I think typically unstyled is Pre-war, Styled is Post war.

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1958 AC D17 Series 1 NF

1949 Farmall M NF

1938 AC B

Posted By: CAL(KS)
Date Posted: 15 May 2019 at 10:30am

In 1938 wc sheetmetal changed and would be basically the same through WD and WD45 series tractors with the rounded radiator guard and streamlined hood. earlier wc had only an optional radiator screen, radiator was visible, hood was very simple and gas tanks were not tear drop. Fenders changed. WF went through similar changes. Model B started in 38 started out with the styled look. I think the changes were to to modernize the wc with the introduction of the B

U and UC tractors were never styled but did have changes early on in sheet metal

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Me -C,U,UC,WC,WD45,190XT,TL-12,145T,HD6G,HD16,HD20

Dad- WD, D17D, D19D, RT100A, 7020, 7080,7580, 2-8550's, 2-S77, HD15

Posted By: HoughMade
Date Posted: 15 May 2019 at 11:04am

Styled have sheet metal covering the radiator, a grill shell. Normally the lines of the grill shell flows into the hood and there are some sort of curves in the profile.

Unstyled have a cast radiator without a sheet metal cover- no grill shell. The hood meets the radiator directly and there are mostly straight lines in profile.

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1951 B

Posted By: mhankins
Date Posted: 15 May 2019 at 8:05pm

Thanks

Posted By: LionelinKY
Date Posted: 18 May 2019 at 7:17am

Us and UCs did have a cast radiator but the unstyled WC/WF did not have cast radiators. Their radiators were brass.

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