Very late WD45?

AC WD45 - The WD45's shipped to Canada also had orange front rims and orange rear wheels.

My dad was an Allis dealer in southern Ontario starting in 1953.

I have a couple of pictures of me at age 7 sitting on the first pair of WD45's that he received.

In all those early years I never seen any WD45's with cream wheels.

In his later years (1990's) fathers hobby was refurbishing and painting old Allis tractors.

He always painted WD and WD45 front rims and rear wheels orange.

Gary

Ooops, the 45D

D-15 was the very first unit painted PO#2 and cream and others soon followed, that is pretty well documented. Adding to what Skip said I remember our dealer painting every 14, 17, WD or 45 that got traded in with PO#2 and cream wheels. At the very least they painted the rear wheels and front rims with cream. We have an 55 WD-45D with a very old PO1 and cream paint job and if a person didnt know better he'd swear the cream wheels were original.

The 45D

A thought just occured to me. Wern't the Canadian 45's painted with cream rims?

Whoa Whoa! I know that tractor in the video - because I'm the dude driving it!

The paint, the rim color, and the decals are NOT original. It has been repainted and was brought into middle Tennessee from Indiana about 20 years ago. All the discussion about "dressing them up" to look more modern definitely applies to this tractor. The guy we bought it from painted the wheels white himself.

However, the one trait I have witnessed is a WD45 not far from where the one in the video was bought. A WD45 bought new at Smithville, TN in 1957 after the D17's were on the lot. That WD45 has the in-hood "dashboard" like a WD45 diesel, but was a gas burner and has the short hood of a gas burner. Factory power steering, hinged seat, all the possible goodies a WD45 could have. The orginal owner still has it and can verify it was one of the "last" WD45's built and was discounted due to the appearance of the D17 (which is why he bought it). All orange paint, no white wheels. The in-hood dash is what he claims to be the sure sign of the last WD45's ever sent out. I've tried numerous times to buy that tractor, because its one of the finest looking WD45's I've ever seen. That tractor will no doubt not be sold out of his family.

Edited by Hudsonator - 28 Jan 2010 at 8:47am

There isn't much a WC can't do.

WD's just do it better.

Depending on when someone repainted a tractor they may have had limited options. The series II D17 I have my dad repainted 25 years ago using series IV paint scheme and badges because at the time that was all you could get.

According to Allis WD Parts Catalog the transmission straight shift lever ended and the curved shift lever started around Serial 127003 in early 1953,before the start of WD45 production around serial 146XXX.

Gary

Late WDs with curved geer shift levers and WD45s with straight geer shift levers are two different animals.

We would change the paint color on nice WD45s to PO #2 with cream wheels as it dressed em up a little more for selling. Im sure the tractor in the vid is a repaint, as far as the decals, Ive seen 45s with the same decals, you couldnt buy the correct decal for the hood since the late 70s from AC, so some guys just used whatever. HTH

The story's about WD trans going in the WD45's is haft true the last runs of the late 1952 into the first 1953 WD's had a mix of trans in them. But not the WD45s. Boy will this start something. LOL

3 WD45's with power steering,G,D15 fork lift,D19, W-Speed Patrol, "A" Gleaner with a 330 corn head,"66" combine,roto-baler, and lots of Snap Coupler implements to make them work for their keep.

Im an old timer, too and Ill tell you like the others. no cream white until 1960. SOME of the dealers put on cream white wheels when they repainted a trade in to make it look more modern and "current"

sometimes I walk out to my shop and look around and think "Who's the idiot that owns this place?"

Todd, so how did they come up with series II D 17 rear rims while finishing up production of the 45's?

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Lena 1935 WC12xxx, Willie 1951 CA6xx Dad bought new, 1954WD45 PS, 1960 D17 NF

All the WD45's and the D-14's The ser one D17's where all orange.

Here is a pic.

This WD45 is ser@ 236XXX it is one of the last 900 WD45s

3 WD45's with power steering,G,D15 fork lift,D19, W-Speed Patrol, "A" Gleaner with a 330 corn head,"66" combine,roto-baler, and lots of Snap Coupler implements to make them work for their keep.

The white boxed decal contained the triangular A-C logo which did not come out until the mid 60's.

'49 A-C WD, '51 A-C WD, '63 A-C D17 Series III, 1968 A-C One-Seventy, '82 A-C 6060, '75 A-C 7040, A-C #3 sickle mower, 2 A-C 701 wagons, '78 Gleaner M2

I don't think anything came with cream wheels until the D series.

'49 A-C WD, '51 A-C WD, '63 A-C D17 Series III, 1968 A-C One-Seventy, '82 A-C 6060, '75 A-C 7040, A-C #3 sickle mower, 2 A-C 701 wagons, '78 Gleaner M2

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