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From what I can gather, everything should be orange except rear rims and headlights. Not sure about gennie, but I would assume so. I have seen old film footage of WD45s going down the line, and the painter was painting everything that was there. Carb, exhaust manifold, knobs, whatever was there, it got sprayed. They put on headlights later so they wouldn't have to tape them off i guess. Starter I have on my C now was the original one on my grandads' 1950 C. It had a bad bendix spring, so he bought a used one and put the other one under the porch, where it sat for twenty or more years. The tractor sat outside and rusted completely, but starter was still orange. I scratched some of the paint off. Nothing under it but metal. I would imagine that the radiator was even painted orange, or what parts of it were sticking out. Radiator shop would have either sprayed them black(only color they had on hand at radiator shop), or replacement radiator would have been black.(think about it, all replacement radiators are black, unless you get one of those aluminum fancy ones). Radiator probably started out black, just got sprayed on the paint line with the rest.
As for the seat, it had a wooden bottom, with metal inner-springs, horse hair stuffing, and a canvas cover. I think there were brass eyelets on both ends to let air out when you sat down. There were also 2 holes in the wooden bottom to do the same thing.(it would act like a bellows with no holes in it when the springs compressed and rebounded if there were no holes to relieve the pressure difference). Think about an old army tent. Canvas was same kind and color. Green to olive drab color. Not the prettiest combination of colors, but AC was not worried about pretty in those days, they wanted reliable and simple. Sold more tractors than looks. If you want a show queen, fix it any way you want. It's yours. That's part of the fun. You can be original, just don't EVER paint it a certain shade of green and yellow, or it'll never run right again.LOL!
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