Thread: County paint scheme

Probably quite a lot of variation, not only over the period of production (1983-1989), but also between different production locations (e.g. Australia vs UK vs S.A. etc). I personally do not remember seeing any where the lower body colour did not extend all the way to the roof line.

John

Looks great I reckon!

Thanks Judo

Do you reckon it looks better with the trident green B pillar (photo 1) or the all ivory-white B pillar (photo2)

The green pillar looks horrible with everything else being white above the door line. Needs to be all colour or all white IMO.
I prefer the body colour up to the roof, but probably just because it's more familiar to me. With the square cornered series windows I think it looks ok in white too.

Steve

Photo 2. All white on the pillar. The green pillar does look a bit odd.

I quite like photo 1. The green line of B pillar accentuates the classic split side windows. Both look great though. Love the side stripes too.

I've seen a couple of Countys like that. As far as I know it will be a very, very early model County, like 1983, possibly one of the very first imported to Aus.
The last one I saw was in the car park at the tip of Cape York and that's where the conversation ended up.
I'm pretty sure there's a member on here with a blue and white one, hopefully he can comment on this.

Cheers, Murray

Just did a search for 1983 Defender and these are some of the results..........

Looks as if this may be the colour scheme used in very early coil spring production - or possibly that used in ones that were not County trim, but later we only saw wagons with County trim. (Reminder that "County" is a trim level designation, used on Series 3, Range Rover, as well as 90/110, but which seems to have been appropriated in Australia to 110/120 pre-Defender Landrovers, the result of the fact that most sold were 110 wagons with "County" prominently blazoned on the sides!)

John