Reply With QuoteI 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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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.
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hmmmmmmmmOriginally Posted by 1950landy
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..
but i am no expert by any measure....
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2012 SZ Territory TX 2.7 TDCi
"Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it." -- a warning from Adolf Hitler
"If you don't have a sense of humour, you probably don't have any sense at all!" -- a wise observation by someone else
'If everyone colludes in believing that war is the norm, nobody will recognize the imperative of peace." -- Anne Deveson
“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.” - Pericles
"We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.” – Ayn Rand
"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts." Marcus Aurelius
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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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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
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
2007 Discovery 3 SE7 TDV6 2.7
2012 SZ Territory TX 2.7 TDCi
"Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it." -- a warning from Adolf Hitler
"If you don't have a sense of humour, you probably don't have any sense at all!" -- a wise observation by someone else
'If everyone colludes in believing that war is the norm, nobody will recognize the imperative of peace." -- Anne Deveson
“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.” - Pericles
"We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.” – Ayn Rand
"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts." Marcus Aurelius
YarnMaster
SupporterMGB '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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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
2007 Discovery 3 SE7 TDV6 2.7
2012 SZ Territory TX 2.7 TDCi
"Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it." -- a warning from Adolf Hitler
"If you don't have a sense of humour, you probably don't have any sense at all!" -- a wise observation by someone else
'If everyone colludes in believing that war is the norm, nobody will recognize the imperative of peace." -- Anne Deveson
“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.” - Pericles
"We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.” – Ayn Rand
"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts." Marcus Aurelius
Master
I think those 4 may have met up at the Bakers Hill Motorama this past Sunday: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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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.
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