How to Paint Your Tractor

Description

Painting your tractor is the final finishing touch to restoration or maintenance, but too often is a foreign country for collectors, restorers, and farmers. Tharran Gaines is a trusted writer and instructor on the restoration of tractors, and provides detailed, clearly defined, step-by-step guide to painting your tractor for that perfectly authentic look. It's the finishing touch and the first thing anyone will see : an essential step in tractor restoration, but the techniques can be unfamiliar and daunting. This easy-to follow how-to book takes the guesswork and anxiety out of the process and assures you of getting just the look you want for your vintage farm machine. Beginning with metal cleaning, preparation, and bodywork repair, Gaines covers primer and paint types, matching vintage paint colors, painting equipment and techniques, concluding with decal and emblem placement plus application and finishing techniques.

Tharran E. Gaines, who writes manuals and assembly instructions for many agricultural equipment powerhouses, is the author of Voyageur Press' How to Restore Classic Farm Tractors, How to Restore Classic John Deere Tractors, How to Restore Classic Farmall Tractors," and the forthcoming How to Restore Classic Ford Tractors." Tharran lives in a 100-plus-year-old Victorian home in Savannah, Missouri.

As it turns out, you can make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. When it comes to painting a rusting hulk of a tractor, all you need is time, money, plenty of elbow grease - and Tharran Gaines' new book...an indispensable book for any tractor restorer. -- "Farm Collector, "November 2009