Thread: Does anyone have a Landy in CAMINO GOLD colour ?

Yep, I heard it was left over from a government paint contract too, but I thought it was for PNG landys or a rescue truck! I'd be looking at what land Rover Australia (Or whatever they were called then) was also building and selling!

there's a rangey from the same era that's the same colour!

[quote=Dinty]G'day All, I say why do you have Victorian plate on the rear of the Land Rover and NSW plates in other shots?? not planning a heist of an ATM in a getaway car.

Well you see Dinty there is a very reasonably and plausible reason why the car has two number plates, and since I am aware of that fact I will share it all with you.

You see _f b_ actually lives right on the NSW/Vic boarder, straddles it in fact, the line actually disects his garage where the Game is parked so that when the beast has been caged, half is in NSW and the other half, that bit attached to the front, is in Mexican territory.

Now this caused a bit of a problem for the relevant Motor Vehicle Registration people in both states as they could see a perfectly good registration fee going to the opposition.

Each state decided that _f b_ was theirs, this dispite the claims of the other state, I mean sitting right across their boarder was a perfectly healthy registration fee, without which the Minister, on his overseas publicly funded fact finding tour to research the road use registration of the two humped camel in outer Mongolia, all of which is conducted from the airconditioned safety of the Paris-Hilton, accepted parlimentary practice states that the Minister does not have to ACTUALLY travel to the country which his submitted expense account states he is researching, and who knows probably with Paris Hilton as an accessorised doona cover, and without _f b_'s rego fee he would not be able to afforded the Duck a la orange with imported (Aussie) wine, and have to settle for regular pollie fare, such as Lobister Mornay, which is a little bit ordinary.

This caused quite a bit of concern amongst all those pollies due to depart these shores for the far reaches of the world ( read : - Paris, France, Rome is acceptable as a destination, but not allowed to travel on the local trains, in case they spontaneously disintegrate, spreading pollie parts all over the ancient city) and so they did what every government does in times of uncertainty, They requested advice from the legal profession, now any Silk worth his silk knows a money spinner when it is handed to him, and in consultation with his brother silk, acting for the other side, they reached the consensus that they would not be serving their client well unless all facets of the case was throughly investigated, this would of course envolve trips overseas to research similar cases in areas such as outer Nepal, Stalag XXXXIVXI in inner most Siberia etc, and to keep costs down they decided to travel together, after all this was Public Funds they were using, not to be spent frivolously, and as a further cost saving exercise they determined that it was not necessary to actually travel to Outer Nepal or Inner Siberia, it being determined that the case could be fully researched from the airconditioned safety of the Paris-Hilton and they would further save spending Public Funds by sharing Paris Hilton as their accessorised doona cover.

And so after 366 days of research(Thats 1 year 1 Day for all you Air Force and Naval types out there) at $14,000 at day (plus expenses) the silks handed up their deliberation......which was that the states should enact legislation changing their Local Government Act and Motor Vehicle Registration act ( This alteration to be known as "The Francois Rule") to share the registration fee, which is the reason for the two number plates.

Now the Pollies all applauded this decision, but most could'nt help thinking ( some do think you know) that all was not right, and were really p%*@ed orf when the Clerk of Public Expenditure advised them that from now on Duck a la orange was off the list of acceptable and allowable expenses, cos they had to find the squillions to pay the silks.

I hope this clears it up for you, and of course Francois is quite embrassed by the whole episode and dosen't like to talk about it. K?

GEEEEEZZZZZZZZ, what a yarn, but it won't hold water, more holes than a colander mrapocalypse doesn't own said vehicle, f b owns it. I have heard about the mexican revolution but I hadn't heard that they had captured that much territory as yet, you see the Central Coast is just Sth of where I live and I hadn't heard any sporadic gunfire or any orders to fall back and hold the Wattagan line anyway I don't think I could spin a yarn like that one, how bloody long did that take cheers Dennis
PS has anyone been able to shed any light on the colour, if not any reputable spray painter should be able to wet match it for you.

g'day fellas

now THAT is a story good one

The first owner was in WA, a fella in VIC then bought it off him, moved to QLD and I bought it. The pic is from the 2nd owner while in VIC. Later ones are of QLD plates. My plates now are GAM078 (NSW plates). I dont have decent pics. temp plates in my pic. So its done the full circle.

Jip the game came out in one colour and thats it. BRIGHT yellow. I know the camino gold, its a brownish colour not yellow at all. Got a mix done and it doesnt match. Problem is now if i dont get the right paint code they want $ 40 to match it. If i get the right colour they will replace for free. And my car shows camino on the plates. doesnt figure ??

Devil yellow sounds about right. If i can get that paint code it will be beaut!
Any pics of your game mate ?

Ace, i agree it needs to get out. That pic was after a serious scrub and polish. 10 years of soil came out of the bottom channels. Lucky no rust. Zilch its been rust proofed many years ago. Funny a new car doesnt feel like its yours until you have done some serious elbow grease to clean it. Mechanical i want to do a proper service first then its all OK from there. Got a few odds and ends to fit to complete it cosmetic. door locks, window slides and new fuel pump etc. all on way from UK. I also replaced all lense and headlight screws with stainless, all floor bolts with galvanized.

I finally gave up local. All 4x4 in Newcastle was good and got a few small parts from them.

im also on the lookout for a cheap s3 LWB. Preferably a ex-military as a 2nd landy. The swb is fun and will go good in the bush and local driving but a v17R haines hunter is bloody heavy. Maybe not good idea for swb to tow boat. maybe a old rangie/disco for towing ? melikes s3 but there are better tow cars. Of course I would love to buy a defender but spending that amount on a 3rd car. 3 regos and a boat rego! I drive long distance to Sydney so the commo does the job. How do you fellas cope with regos for all the landys ? im keeping my eye on the ads for defender, 110 or even county in good nick. finding a good condition S3 is just as difficult. Lotsa "serious project cars" around but decent kinda clean cars. Nowhere.

Cheers

[quote=Dinty]GEEEEEZZZZZZZZ, what a yarn, but it won't hold water, more holes than a colander mrapocalypse doesn't own said vehicle, f b owns it. I have heard about the mexican revolution but I hadn't heard that they had captured that much territory as yet, you see the Central Coast is just Sth of where I live and I hadn't heard any sporadic gunfire or any orders to fall back and hold the Wattagan line anyway I don't think I could spin a yarn like that one, how bloody long did that take cheers Dennis

Geez Dinty! You were quick, I picked that up as soon as I posted it and edited it straight away. Oh and Yes I was bored, was home alone.Oh the peace, the sound of silence, the pure bliss

How long did it take? All of 7-8 minutes, plenty of practice at work writing Ministerial Briefing notes as to how good we all are and what appears to be a problem actually isn't.

Glad you all liked it

Camino Gold was a 73-74 Morris Marina colour not a Game colour, some one is playing tricks on you.

The plates on the car states "Camino Gold". All original plates for chassis and paint. Im stuck until i get the real colour and paint codes off somebody.
Did Leyland stuff up perhaps ? Possible to put wrong paint codes on a car ?

Originally Posted by f_b

The plates on the car states "Camino Gold". All original plates for chassis and paint. Im stuck until i get the real colour and paint codes off somebody.
Did Leyland stuff up perhaps ? Possible to put wrong paint codes on a car ?

Obviously Leyland was having a bad Quality Control day and some idiot put the wrong label on your Game.
Details from my label:

Dulon E type Acrylic Lacquer
Yellow Devil 566 17422

The colour of mine is the same as yours, I have no photos available at this time.
I hope this information helps you out.

Mick.