Thread: Series 3 Wheel Colour

I suppose my 1980 109 cab chassis isn’t entirely relevant here, but it is Camino Gold, white roof ( were all cab chassis roofs white?) with silver wheels. I would like to have Limestone wheels but I think it would just look wrong.

Pretty sure it was an Australian build. Can’t get to it to check, but a cab chassis? Wasn’t this the only market for these?

Showing a fair bit of ignorance here. But most Series I have dealt with were Olive Drab😀

Originally Posted by Tins

I suppose my 1980 109 cab chassis isn’t entirely relevant here, but it is Camino Gold, white roof ( were all cab chassis roofs white?) with silver wheels. I would like to have Limestone wheels but I think it would just look wrong.

Pretty sure it was an Australian build. Can’t get to it to check, but a cab chassis? Wasn’t this the only market for these?

Showing a fair bit of ignorance here. But most Series I have dealt with were Olive Drab😀

Early Series 1 came in a number of colours, but by the time production started in Australia, the standard colours for swb was green and when the lwb came out it was grey. With, from memory, body coloured wheels. Series 2 kept the same colours, but limestone roof it fitted (all bodies) and wheels changed to limestone about the start of 2a. When sixes came out they were Camino Gold (or similar). There were exceptions - my first 2a, a 1961 lwb trayback, was whilte with the tray grey, but I am certain it was repainted when new by the dealer in Alice. Wheels were also white.

Series 3, certainly for the first few years, kept the same colours, but by the late seventies several other colours appeared as options, and at various times a different wheel manufacturer was used and wheels were silver.

For all of Series production, station wagons were mostly fully imported and came in UK colours, although especially in Series 1 and 2/2a a few were standard hardtops brought up to wagon build locally. But Series station wagons were always very rare (I think the first 2/2a wagon I ever saw was in 1966, and it was a LHD import!). Series 1 & 2/2a most were basic swb rag tops or lwb cab utes. By about 1962 traybacks fairly rapidly replaced most lwb utes and hardtops, both long and short became more common, although they had always been popular with some fleet buyers, and there was always a scattering of other styles.

Of course, none of the above comments applied to the major fleet buyers, including the army - they always had their own specs, and Rover was usually happy to comply provided the order was big enough.

And

Thanks for all the updates.
I have now purchased some Limestone paint, code NCJ, and will send a pic of the wheels... hopefully a warm white and not beige.

Originally Posted by gromit

The Leyland Mini appears to have been sold in Spanish Olive with a white roof & silver wheels so maybe Spanish Olive Land Rovers also had a white roof?

Colin

Yep, definitely a white roof on that colour Landie as well.

Both these where 1976 build in the 'Spanish Olive' colour. I do wonder about the 'Spanish Olive' for these as I've always thought the Leyland Australia built Mini's, Marina's and P76's in 'Spanish Olive' where a slightly 'dirtier' green.

Moreton 1978 both.jpg

Originally Posted by Lakey

Yep, definitely a white roof on that colour Landie as well.

Both these where 1976 build in the 'Spanish Olive' colour. I do wonder about the 'Spanish Olive' for these as I've always thought the Leyland Australia built Mini's, Marina's and P76's in 'Spanish Olive' where a slightly 'dirtier' green.

Moreton 1978 both.jpg

A mate had a Rover 3.0 in Spanish Olive 'back in the day'. He commented my shorty was exactly the same colour but his memory may have faded.....

Colin

I had my 5 rims hot dipped galvanised.
Then painted with wheel silver.
All was good until I sprayed brake cleaner rather than degreaser when washing the rims one day.
Now back to gal.

whitehillbilly

Originally Posted by Peter879

Thanks for all the updates.
I have now purchased some Limestone paint, code NCJ, and will send a pic of the wheels... hopefully a warm white and not beige.

The pic has the end result from using the limestone paint. Happy with this ... not beige at all.
IMG-20250429-WA0001.jpg

Originally Posted by Peter879

The pic has the end result from using the limestone paint. Happy with this ... not beige at all.
IMG-20250429-WA0001.jpg

Yeah, that looks right!