180 grill color?

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 ??

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.

Would that serial number make it a 1972 model?

Thanks. Randy

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.

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...

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.

Does anyone know if a 70 & 71 185 has the shallow mesh and flat front? I know the mesh was orange with black decals, and black & silver AC logo in grill. I always figured the shallow mesh grill came out when the 200 came out, as they used that style, but had the added pleated screen only on the 200. The base grill became the superseded or replacement part for all the others. I've seen several 72 210's in original clothes and all had the flat front/shallow screen, yet agco parts books only shows 1 part number for the grill. Only an old parts book may show some preceded part numbers. I'm with Dr, the 170 did get the black stripe/dash/orange mesh face lift like a 175, but the 180 wasn't built long enough to get the face lift, it was never restyled. Guessing the 170 style change was about when the 180 was being phased out in 73. As said earlier, I'd like to see some original pics of a 73 190D also, to see what those had. 

I checked my grill today. It was painter orange from the factory, so orange with the cream decal on it. Thanks again for all the info! Now i just have to get it ready for the GOTO at Penfield this summer.

What's the printing date on that One-Eighty book ?? I've never seen that literature book before. Only 2 headlites.

Edited by DrAllis - 8 hours 52 minutes ago at 10:20pm