Ford and Fordson Tractors

1940 FORDSON STANDARD N

PART 2

I ’ve restored dozens of tractors and have developed what I think is a good system that I follow on every project. However, when this Fordson arrived at my workshop, I knew that I would need to tackle things slightly differently from usual.

However, as reported last time, things got off to a normal start, with the tractor being stripped and then sand-blasted. This removed all of the old paint, which clearly wasn’t the original finish as the machine had evidently been restored in the past.

Wheels left on

As I mentioned in Part 1, I’d decided to leave the front wheels on and, as it turned out, was pleased that I had; doing so

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