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randy 
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Posted: Yesterday at 9:03am |
Painting my 180 and was wondering what color the grill insert should be? have seen white on some and some orange. Serial number 12162. Cloud white for front rims and rear wheel centers? Thanks randy
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DrAllis
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Posted: Yesterday at 9:30am |
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Creme on those parts. Not cloud white or new white. As far as the grille screen goes, I think creme. BUT, the 185 came out in late 1970 and had the new color scheme of an orange grille screen with black background hood decals. Your s/n is newer than 1970. I still think creme is correct, especially if the hood decals are creme background. Can't you tell what color the grille screen was painted originally ??
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Posted: Yesterday at 9:39am |
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My old 180 appears OEM paint, and grill Grating area is same color as rest of Grill panel.
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Posted: Yesterday at 9:51am |
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And, I suppose there's a chance the grille shell and screen were painted orange first and then the screen got masked and sprayed creme. Any 180 screen was creme until possibly very late after 1971 or so near the end of their production.
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Posted: 22 hours 53 minutes ago at 11:21am |
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Looks like the grill screen was and still is orange. The hood decal was cream with black letters. Thanks for the info. Randy
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Posted: 22 hours 49 minutes ago at 11:25am |
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Would that serial number make it a 1972 model?
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Posted: 22 hours 17 minutes ago at 11:57am |
 randy wrote:
Would that serial number make it a 1972 model? |
.....Serial #12447 was the start of 1973...So late 1972...
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Posted: 21 hours 53 minutes ago at 12:21pm |
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Thanks. Randy
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Posted: 18 hours 24 minutes ago at 3:50pm |
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Is the grill the flat front, shallow screen style like a 185? Those were all orange as far as I know, but many times us old farts remember wrong lmao! To me, all 180's would have cream decals and cream grill mesh with the older deep 190 grill shell. Could be like the 210 though, after 72, they got the shallow flat front grill shell with orange mesh. Never personally seen a 73 190D, but curious what style grill shell those had.
Edited by injpumpEd - 18 hours 22 minutes ago at 3:52pm
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Posted: 17 hours 44 minutes ago at 4:30pm |
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I just checked a picture of our 1969 180 Diesel, the recessed grill and decal background are crèam. Front and rear wheel centers also cream.
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Posted: 16 hours 38 minutes ago at 5:36pm |
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I have advertising literature for and have actually seen very late model 170's that had the decals and grille screen just like the 175 did. The (older) One-Seventy's were always cream decals and grille screen. I've never seen a late 180 with matching color 185 decals and grille screen. I'm not saying they may not have made some, but I've never seen one. As far as I'm concerned all (older) One-Eighty's were cream decals and grille screens, but I could be wrong.
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Posted: 55 minutes ago at 9:19am |
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I think, as an afterthought, all the very latest 185's just had just one color, orange -To save $ - the black radiator and air filter kind of made it look black...
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Posted: 22 minutes ago at 9:52am |
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Dad's 1968 180 had cream screen and his 1974 185 was all orange. Both tractors were bought new.
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Posted: 13 minutes ago at 10:01am |
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All 175/185's always had an orange grille screen. That's not the question. What we're trying to determine is, at a certain point when One-Eighty's and 185's were being built simultaneously, did the One-Eighty ever lose the creme colored grille screen and go to an orange screen like the 185's always were ?? I think so. But, the hood decals never went to the black background and said "180" instead of One-Eighty, which the last of the 170's actually did.
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