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  1. 12th June 2012, 05:41 PM #1
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    Ex Navy 1950 Restoration

    G,day all after owning my 1950 80" 06105221 for more years then i can remember i have been slowly pulling her apart to find a very solid vehicle.Now iam getting close to where i need to think about paint colour, so my delima is do i paint it in its factory colour DBG or the very light pale blue that she had while in the navy?
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    very light pale blue
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    If i do go the light pale blue i need to find out what colour the chassis would have been, so far under a thick layer of some kind of tar coating i can only find traces of DBG
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    blue will definitely make it unique. Not many ex-mil S1s around
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    Were they light blue in the 50s??? Certainly were in the late 60s and 70s but were they before that.

    I have posted this before - a colour clip with a 80 series 1 onboard TOBRUK in Korea - what is the colour - I do not know bit it looks darker than light blue

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    Quote Originally Posted by garrycol View Post
    Were they light blue in the 50s??? Certainly were in the late 60s and 70s but were they before that.

    I have posted this before - a colour clip with a 80 series 1 onboard TOBRUK in Korea - what is the colour - I do not know bit it looks darker than light blue

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    Did you spot the Series 1?

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    What a great peice of footage thanks for showing, as for the shade of blue it is the light shade as i came across it while rubbing back the bonnet and firewall. So at least i have a colour match
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lost Landy View Post
    What a great peice of footage thanks for showing, as for the shade of blue it is the light shade as i came across it while rubbing back the bonnet and firewall. So at least i have a colour match
    Look I do not know - however I suspect the early series 1s in Navy use may well have been the standard green that they came in at the time. I do now that the colour was different to the blue that came in in the 60s. All black and white pics I have seen of 50s landrovers on ships would indicate the colour was dark not light.

    Does the delivery records for the Navy 80s that have been posted on AULRO somewhere actually give the colour.

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    From the photo below in 1958 the colour of the Navy Land Rovers would have appeared to have changed to a lighter colour (possibly blue) remember the ship’s hull colour has a grey/green tint to it.



    Picture taken of HMAS Voyager (II) on 27th January 1958 steamming up the Johore Strait onroute to Singapore.

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    Quote Originally Posted by garrycol View Post
    Did you spot the Series 1?
    How could you miss it? It is in standard land rover configuration - bonnet up!


    Nice vehicle - I vote for the darker blue - not that I know anything but I think it'd look good in dark blue.
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