Thread: Which paint colour goes where?

My sides on the 'safari 88' are limestone, but I recall one my father had when I was a kid, as being body colour...so maybe it was an optional thing??

I have a feeling that Series II & IIa had the body sides and tailgate top in Limestone and Series III had them in body colour.
The roof & wheels on a Series III were maybe white rather than than Limestone (?) but no doubt it depended on where it was built and what day of the week it was built.........


Colin

Your summary is fairly accurate for the majority. But throughout production there have been variations, often for large customers, and towards the end of Series 3 production, there were some quite unusual (by historic standards) paint schemes, perhaps the most different being the 'Game'.

John

Tim,

I have to say that regardless of historical accuracy, I think a contrasting canopy looks much nicer,

however, if you have a split tail gate or a swing door may be the decision maker:

a contrast may look odd with a swing door?

just my 2pence

regards
Tim

Mine looks fine with contrasting swing door.

My Series 3 109 was originally painted sandstone from the mid line up however it was changed at some stage then changed again.


I did similar and changed it again with just the roof in the sandstone.

In Australia, up until the introduction of the Defender name here in 1991, the vast majority of Landrovers with a metal roof (cab, hardtop wagon) had at least the roof limestone or something close to that. This was often extended to the upper side and rear body panels.

Most Series 1, 2 and four cylinder 2a were deep bronze green for 88s and grey for 107-109. When introduced, sixes were usually camino gold or close to this. These colours tended to remain the most common into Series 3, but particularly later in S3 production, there were more variations.

And as I commented earlier, there have always been ones that did not fit the usual colours - for example, my 1961 2a 109, sold new in Alice Springs, was white all over with a grey trayback, quite unusual for any make at that time.

John

Hello from Brisbane.

When the 2A sixes came on the market in the late 60's they were mainly Limestone or a colour close to that. The Golds were largely 3's.

The metal roof on the hardtops (not necessarily cab tops) was a white but not vivid white. I don't think it was Limestone - my 1968 2A certainly had Limestone wheels and a lighter cab. The truck cabs on the 2A's were usually the same colour as the body on both the roof and back panels - bronze on the 88" and grey/Limestone on the 109" depending on the number of cylinders. The 3's changed all that with the patterns as described before.

And of course there were the special orders, imports and mix and matches .....

Cheers,

Neil