factory yellow MC
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factory yellow MC
Hi all, new member here. Just looking for information on original yellow MC'S. found one for sale in immaculate condition if it is what they say it is. And for a reasonable price too. Just looking for an estimate of how many were factory yellow, what they are worth.. etc. If I could get any info that would be great! Thanks!!!
No way to determine how many were yellow. If you think it is reasonable, that is all that matters.
Lavoy
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mc
Are you interested in the MC because of the price,condition or because
its yellow .Like Lavoy says what its worth is up to you.If the color matters to you then before you buy you might want the Two Cylinder Club to
do a serial number search to see if the machine you are looking at came
from the plant as an industrial yellow or was a repaint.Just my 2cents.
Luck JimAnderson
its yellow .Like Lavoy says what its worth is up to you.If the color matters to you then before you buy you might want the Two Cylinder Club to
do a serial number search to see if the machine you are looking at came
from the plant as an industrial yellow or was a repaint.Just my 2cents.
Luck JimAnderson
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Yellow MC is just a paint option, nothing else about the crawler is different. I have one sitting at the farm now, seen multiple others.
Lavoy
Lavoy
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Is it like this one? http://www.tractorshed.com/cgi-bin/phot ... =retrieval
1956 JD420, gearmatic 8a winch, custom 6 way blade and FOPS.
That is a 3 roller 40, but concept is the same.
Lavoy
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factory yellow MC
Yes, I'm interested interested in it because its yellow. I just am wanting to know mainly how desirable they are in yellow, and how common they are. I know most of you will probably say it doesn't matter if you're looking to get all of them, but I haven't seen one sell or ever seen one in person. We already have a green 51', we are hoping to have the whole M series collected eventually, already have an M,MT,The Green MC, also an original orange MI. I just would like a little more information, Before we put the money down on something thats 6 hours away.
Then my opinion is the yellow paint adds zero additional value. They are not rare, they are not special, they are only different color, and a factory color at that, so any value perceived or otherwise is purely based on the desire of a potential buyer/s to have one in that color. As a general rule, yellow crawlers sell poorer than green crawlers based on my experience of having owned a couple hundred of them.
Additionally, I know for a fact that there were various two cylinder crawlers that were painted a different color than they rolled down the assembly line with either before they left factory inventory, or at the dealer level to satisfy customer desire. Therefore, if I really wanted a yellow MC, that is the color it would be when I restored it, regardless of what it was supposedly "born" with.
Lavoy
Additionally, I know for a fact that there were various two cylinder crawlers that were painted a different color than they rolled down the assembly line with either before they left factory inventory, or at the dealer level to satisfy customer desire. Therefore, if I really wanted a yellow MC, that is the color it would be when I restored it, regardless of what it was supposedly "born" with.
Lavoy
Parts and restoration for antique and late model John Deere crawlers.
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Hi,
As far as original factory color goes, when they had full-up production running of both green and yellow, if they ran out of a part on either line, they grabbed a wrong color part and repainted it on the fly.
My 420c is Ag, so Green, but was ordered with the optional direction reverser. Oops. No Green reversers. Only Yellow. So, stick a Yellow one in and paint it Green. Done!
Over the years some green wound up scraped off the reverser and now it has yellow spots. Not that it matters as all the paint winds up covered in protective oil and dirt.
And, I know this is factory original because it was ordered and sold in 1958 buy my uncle, and scarfed up on trade-in in 1968 by my dad.
So, I am with Lavoy on this. Paint color neither adds or or subtracts from the value of an MC.
Oh, and give each major assembly a scratch and see if all the parts might not be Green under the Yellow. Even if it is, good luck figuring out if Dubuque did the Yellow over Green or not.....
Stan
As far as original factory color goes, when they had full-up production running of both green and yellow, if they ran out of a part on either line, they grabbed a wrong color part and repainted it on the fly.
My 420c is Ag, so Green, but was ordered with the optional direction reverser. Oops. No Green reversers. Only Yellow. So, stick a Yellow one in and paint it Green. Done!
Over the years some green wound up scraped off the reverser and now it has yellow spots. Not that it matters as all the paint winds up covered in protective oil and dirt.
And, I know this is factory original because it was ordered and sold in 1958 buy my uncle, and scarfed up on trade-in in 1968 by my dad.
So, I am with Lavoy on this. Paint color neither adds or or subtracts from the value of an MC.
Oh, and give each major assembly a scratch and see if all the parts might not be Green under the Yellow. Even if it is, good luck figuring out if Dubuque did the Yellow over Green or not.....
Stan
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Useta Have: '58 JD 420c 5-roller w/62 inside blade
Useta Have: '78 JD350C w/6310 outside blade
Useta Have: '68 JD350, '51 Terratrac GT-25
Have: 1950 M, 2005 x495, 2008 5103 (now known as 5045D)
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yellow mc
In my opinion the orange MI is going to bring more return and interest
down the road than any MC,regardless of color.They built over 10,000
MC's so it is a relatively common crawler.I am trying to restore a 40c
that I've owned for over thirty years.I have driven from Va to Vermont
just to get parts to bring this beast back to it's original configuration.I
have no doubt that I will never get my money back out of the effort.
These things are not high crops so sinking money in any of them must
have some personal value.Stan is correct in JD using whatever it had on hand when it built these girls back in the day.I have seen many yellow
parts installed on green tractors and the other way around.
Luck,JimAnderson
down the road than any MC,regardless of color.They built over 10,000
MC's so it is a relatively common crawler.I am trying to restore a 40c
that I've owned for over thirty years.I have driven from Va to Vermont
just to get parts to bring this beast back to it's original configuration.I
have no doubt that I will never get my money back out of the effort.
These things are not high crops so sinking money in any of them must
have some personal value.Stan is correct in JD using whatever it had on hand when it built these girls back in the day.I have seen many yellow
parts installed on green tractors and the other way around.
Luck,JimAnderson
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