Thread: Series 3 Wheel Colour

Is the back of the rim the same colour? Is there any chance the front side has faded over the years owing to sunlight?

You can't trust pics for colour matching, especially on a screen. I'm no Series guru but my $$ would be on Limestone.

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Thanks for replying.
The back of the rim is the same colour ... just faded & rusted.
Was there an alternate 'off-white' colour typically used ?

You’re pretty safe with limestone - white is too stark.

The wheels & roof on my Series III are white not Limestone but.......who know whether that's original or not.
Not sure whether Australian Series III's would be different to UK ones.

Some info here
Series 3 wheel colour and rear mudflap question

The vehicle colour, if Australian built, may be Spanish Olive, a Leyland colour.
There's a picture in this thread with a white roof but the wheels are non standard. I've attached a picture of mine, also Spanish Olive.
Spanish Olive paint code



Colin

I suspect that wheel colour varied somewhat, same as the wheels fitted varied - after all, they were in production for quite a while.

But the only colours I have seen on S3, where I am sure the paint is original, and memories from seeing them new, were limestone and silver (excluding ones painted a non-standard colour as a special order by, for example, government departments, when I seem to recall it was normal for body colour to be used on wheels - e.g. DCA or AMF.)

'Spanish Olive' body colour started in 1976 and only ran a couple of years. Wheel colour with that was silver. This combo was SWB only. In 1974 the SWB body colour was the greyish green (I always called it eucalyptus, but don't know what it is offically) and came with the creamy white colour roof and wheels. I agree the limestone colour you often see on resto's appears way too creamy. Somewhere I have a scan of a brochure for that year SWB, if I find it I'll post it here.

First couple of pages of 1975 brochure. Body colour 'Wildlife green', wheels Limestone (cream) and trim Tan.

Interestingly the 1978 brochure says Body colour 'Camino gold', wheels Limestone (cream) and trim Tan. The image however shows silver wheels.

My 1976 SWB delivered new to me Jan 77 definitely had silver wheel with the 'Spanish Olive' green. To be honest I'm not convinced that the colour is actually the Leyland Australia colour 'Spanish Olive' but that's for another discussion elsewhere.