Australias Oldest Land Rover

hmmmmmmmmm

seems to be more to it than light intensity or brightness.

the shadow on the chassis of both vehicles at the front looks the same to me.

:cool:I think you are correct keith , when I enlarge the photo the 3rd L/R on the right which is behind the screen is the same colour on the bonnet as the L/R's on the left but the sides are lighter. Wayne

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Originally Posted by 1950landy

:cool:I think you are correct keith , when I enlarge the photo the 3rd L/R on the right which is behind the screen is the same colour on the bonnet as the L/R's on the left but the sides are lighter. Wayne

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hmmmmmmmm

according to photoshop they are nothing alike

3rd right bonnet #c0c0c0

1st left bonnet #858585

yet the colour of the concrete at the front of the vehicles is within 1 shade

and the two chassis are within 2 shades..

:angel:

but i am no expert by any measure....

They were four rejected vehicles from when Stevie Wonder did work experience in the paint shop.

Poor Stevie grabbed a tin of "Dove Grey" from the upcoming 107" prototypes cupboard.

Instead of repainting them the usual light green, Rover opted with the unusual decision of leaving them grey and shipping one each to NSW, VIC, QLD and TASWEGIA.

And so the Grey 80" story began... ;)


This is my official explanation and may or may not be true.

Another quirk of Les Wells's Land Rover, He had shown me the knee action shock absorbers on it, He told me they were adjustable.

I always sure in the thought that Les had fitted them himself and that they were possibly from a '38 Chevrolet car.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej7CRAIGXow ( 8:15 )

But they were not the ones I remembered with the knurled knob on the end of the cylinder.

Then I go and find this ?????.

Ref; View topic - Restoration of Rover 1947 Sports Saloon

http://www.aulro.com/afvb/attachment...1&d=1364242595

What other British cars had this style shock absorbers fitted?

Les prior to owning his Land Rover, had cut the back of a British built car and made it into a ute.
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my morris minor had them

MGB 's have them , even the Morris Marina's had them which was one of there major faults, they were fitted to a lot of british cars .Wayne

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Originally Posted by andy_d110

They were four rejected vehicles from when Stevie Wonder did work experience in the paint shop.

Poor Stevie grabbed a tin of "Dove Grey" from the upcoming 107" prototypes cupboard.

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FYI

i ran a section of the pic thru some colourizing software

it uses it own algorithms but i had to tell it what colour to start with

and it came up with this

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/

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Originally Posted by andy_d110

They were four rejected vehicles from when Stevie Wonder did work experience in the paint shop.

Poor Stevie grabbed a tin of "Dove Grey" from the upcoming 107" prototypes cupboard.

Instead of repainting them the usual light green, Rover opted with the unusual decision of leaving them grey and shipping one each to NSW, VIC, QLD and TASWEGIA.

And so the Grey 80" story began... ;)


This is my official explanation and may or may not be true.

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I think those 4 may have met up at the Bakers Hill Motorama this past Sunday:

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...013/03/234.jpg:D

There has always been this debate about the early greens, the supposed WWII surplus cockpit green, the Rover green ?2 and sage green. I'm wondering that this maybe an example of two of the paints being used simultaneously.

The other issue is that pre-productions were a different colour green to production models. We also know that pre-pros were still being made when production commenced (so Marco's pre-pro in Perth may actually be younger than 860004!) this may be early production and pre-production being assembled side by side.

Just surmising.

Diana

BTW: Inc, you have coloured the gal fittings.