Oliver 77 paint questions

[Josh in Pa]

We’re working on a mid 1951 Oliver 77. I’d like it be fairly close to original and have some questions. I did not think that the hood center stripe should be yellow on this tractor, but there are some remnants of yellow paint under a couple coats of green. Should the hood stripe be yellow? It has front cast wheels. Should they be green or red? They are red now, with no visible green underneath, but it’s been painted several times. On green/white tractors I have always used new unpainted bolts to attach wheels to tractor. Would that be correct for attaching wheels on this tractor?

 

[rrlund]

51 should have yellow frame stripes, but not a hood stripe as far as I know. The big hubs should be red I believe. Rear hubs and small front hubs would be green. Bolts would be unpainted galvanized. I've heard stories of having kids working at the factory for summer jobs, and if they were sitting on their hands doing nothing, they gave them a paint brush and sent them out to the lot and had them paint hubs red, so nothing is set in stone.

 

[scootergmc]

Someone one time did a great write up on the 66/77/88 paint schemes and changes during that period. Maybe it was one of the magazines. I don't remember a yellow stripe.

 

[rrlund]

Someone one time did a great write up on the 66/77/88 paint schemes and changes during that period. Maybe it was one of the magazines. I don't remember a yellow stripe.

I know there were some with the yellow stripe on the hood, I've seen pictures, but Dad had a 1949 66 that he already had when I was born in 55. That one never had a yellow stripe, so it makes me wonder when and just how few had the stripe.

 

[JohnRowehl]

Apparently 1951 was a year when several changes were made and not necessarily all at once. My ‘51 77 does not have the yellow center hood stripe or the yellow stripe on the frame.
If it was meant to have the yellow stripe on the side, the frame casting would have an area that stands out for the yellow to be painted onto.

 

[scootergmc]

I've now read all sorts of things on this subject: There were only yellow stripe 77 tractors. They were only produced in 48 and 49. They were only striped on the raised frame tractors, in which the raise was also painted yellow. They were yellow striped because people remember the tractor being new. The yellow stripers were also produced in 1950 after the frame casting raise was discontinued and no longer painted. The yellow stripes were discontinued before the frame casting raise was eliminated. The brochures show a yellow stripe. The brochures don't show a yellow stripe. I found an old black and white photo of our yellow stripe. Someone stripped the green paint and there's yellow underneath. Dad said so. Mom said no. Tornado crushed the hood and jim bob repainted the stripe yellow to match the yellow stripe in the grill.

I'm no help and can confirm nothing.