lAA farmall

I have 1944 lAA #105326, can anybody tell me how rare this is? My hood has 4 factory looking holes in it, and the paint is faded red with a strip just below the word farmall in white, w/the cultivision A in the corner. The radiator is also red w/a square of solid white paint around the fines. Any info would be heipful, thanks, Trent.

Well, it's a 1944 A. Not terribly rare, though the numbers didn't pick back up to full steam until the following year whenthe war wound down..

From the number starting with a 1, it started life as an Interntional, not a Farmall, so I'd venture to guess someone has painted it and put Farmall decals on it somewhere along the line.

The front axle tube on the International was rectangular, Farmall was round. International had a foot feed in addition to the hand throttle lever. Hood decals and grille emblem said International on one and Farmall on the other. Other than that, they're the same tractor.

IH would paint them whatever color you wanted if you ordered enough of them, but there was a lot more variety in colors on the Internationals (safety yellow, orange, Air Force blue . . .)than the Farmalls, which may explain any other color than red that you're finding.

Thats for the info,I really appreciate it.

Trent

You're welcome!

in the hood. . .

It sounds like this might have originally been a dual fuel tractor -- started on gas and switched over to distillate once it was warmed up.

Gas only would have three holes in the hood -- exhaust, air breather and the gas tank. Dual-fuel would have had exhaust, air, a cap for the main fuel (distillate) tank, and another cap for the smaller gas (starting) tank. Either case, these are apart from the radiator cap which passes through the top of the grille.

There would be some collectibility to the dual fuel IF all the components of the whole system are there -- both fuel tanks and the manifold, which was different, and the radiator shutters, used to reduce the efficiency of the fan and radiator, to allow the distillate to run the enigine up to a hotter temp)

The manifolds on the dual-fuels had a heat shield around them with an adjustable shutter to regulate air flow, allowing it to heat up more when burning distillate. Many of them rusted shut or rusted out and were replaced. If you have one, it's worth keeping and cleaning up to see if you can make it work.

If you've got both tanks, they are definitely worth keeping, but plan on running gas in both, or treating the small starting gas as an empty object of interest. There's nothing around that is what the old distillate fuel was and most folks long ago started running gas in both tanks.

Shutters are a nice touch and still quite useful fror warming up you engine on short runs, especially in a cold climate.

No more typing after midnight for me. What was I thinking?!?!?

Three hole hood for gas 1) aircleaner 2)exhaust 3) crankcase breather cap

Four hole hood for dual fuel, all of that plus the cap for the starter tank.

The cap for the main fuel tank is on the tank and does NOT involve the hood.

Sorry 'bout that!

What you have is an incorrectly-painted, incorrectly-decaled International A (NOT a Farmall), going by the serial number.

It has the square-tube front axle, correct? Does it also have a foot throttle control?

There are only minor differences between the Farmall and International. Mostly the front end and foot throttle. Decals are different; it should say International on the side. There shouldn't be any white paint on either tractor; that is custom.