Thread: Time for a Re-fit

Originally Posted by Cobber

I've got to say, seeing yours I'm getting rather excited about having my gauges back from the refurb guy and fitting them. Yours look lovely

Thanks Cobber. Yeah, they have come up pretty well - even with all the fingerprints and smudges all over the dash. I look forward to the day when I wash and polish the lot when it's finished.

The other day I had a look at your thread on your IIA in "Members' Rides". I don't usually look at that particular forum and must admit to having not seen your vehicle there before. I will certainly follow its progress now. Looks great.

Cheers,

John

Originally Posted by 450Dan

Looking good indeed, I realise you have probably already mentioned earlier but what paint are you using as the finish looks nice and I am at the paint stage myself and if I'm honest rather clueless about what to use!

Thanks Dan. I'm using Protec 363 Automotive Enamel. I'm adding hardener to it, which seems to be increasing the gloss of its finish as well. It's not as hard as the original paint, unfortunately (the original Bronze Green I found under all the coats of re-paints seemed bulletproof), but overall seems pretty good.

The original paint under the many layers on Bob is also pretty bulletproof, sadly each panel appears to be a different base colour, the bulkhead being a horrible cream, under an equally horrible pinky red.

The wisdom of some of the people who paint these colours is highly questionable.

Yep. Each to their own, I guess - but somebody painted mine a lurid yellow with a white homemade hardtop before I bought it. It looked like a boiled lolly.

Your "horrible cream" may have been Limestone - which actually looks pretty good on a Landy. Originally, I planned to paint my Landy Limestone as I had always had a "safari" look in my mind's eye.

Along the way, I decided upon the original colour and I couldn't consider anything else now.

John

Today was a good day for the morale of Team Extremely Long Land Rover Refurbishment Project (TELLRRP).

Got my (new) cheap compressor fixed up and working a treat (it broke last weekend), and got stuck back into the wings.

By day's end, we were seeing a few coats of Deep Bronze Green on the wings and tailgate - with a little leftover paint (it's got hardener in it) squirted at the under-bonnet to use it productively...

A few photos here of the wings at various stages, one of the support brackets getting cleaned up and the tailgate.

P.S. I left that bit of damage to the tailgate un-repaired intentionally. That hole has always kinda been part of the Landy, if that makes any sense...

...and, yes, I know that the top of the LH wing looks a bit rough. Truth is that it looks worse in the photo with all the reflections around. On top of that, I have had enough of fighting its topography and have called a truce.

Know the feeling about the top of the fender-truce is a good way of expressing it!
Great project and blog. Please keep it coming!
Phil

Thanks Phil.

Yep the rolling hills and dales of that wing are my own fault for butchering it twenty-two years ago when fitting a Donaldson aircleaner (young and stupid; not for fitting a Donaldson, but for doing it the way that I did).

Hopefully I can make a bit more progress today and keep news dribbling in to this thread. The Landy turns fifty next year, and it would be good to be on the road by then.

Cheers,

John