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

Francois

Good to hear that you got the colour code correctly - I was about to suggest that you find an old spray painter (in his 50's or 60's) who will mix the colour by eye. Not a code in sight.

Just about the Game, it was an Australian marketing product built at the Pressed Metal Factory in Revesby NSW and is why it has Sunraysia brand 15" rims instead of the ROH (ROK) 16" rims.

The story about the line marking paint on Land Rovers is true but not as a factory product. In the late 1970's a member of the Land Rover Owners Club in Sydney (who will remain nameless, but for those in the know he had a workshop in Balmain,) worked for the Department of Main Roads (DMR) at one stage and yes he did get DMR linemarking yellow and painted his Series 2A 109" with it.

From a distance is looked similar to, but more "yellow" than the Camino Gold of the regular series 3 109"s. Up close the coating was quite thick and sort of rubbery with little sparkles in it, very different to the baked enamel or acrylic lacquer finishes of the time.

There you are a little bit of History to let you sleep soundly.

Cheers
Diana

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

Francois

Good to hear that you got the colour code correctly - I was about to suggest that you find an old spray painter (in his 50's or 60's) who will mix the colour by eye. Not a code in sight.

Just about the Game, it was an Australian marketing product built at the Pressed Metal Factory in Revesby NSW and is why it has Sunraysia brand 15" rims instead of the ROH (ROK) 16" rims.

The story about the line marking paint on Land Rovers is true but not as a factory product. In the late 1970's a member of the Land Rover Owners Club in Sydney (who will remain nameless, but for those in the know he had a workshop in Balmain,) worked for the Department of Main Roads (DMR) at one stage and yes he did get DMR linemarking yellow and painted his Series 2A 109" with it.

From a distance is looked similar to, but more "yellow" than the Camino Gold of the regular series 3 109"s. Up close the coating was quite thick and sort of rubbery with little sparkles in it, very different to the baked enamel or acrylic lacquer finishes of the time.

There you are a little bit of History to let you sleep soundly.

Cheers
Diana

Thats almost as good a story as mine !!

Originally Posted by Dave109

On the subject of leftover paint, in the booklet "the history of land Rover" printed by a local 4WD mag, they state that leyland missjudged the amount of yellow paint ordered for a fleet of Leyland trucks, for Sydney council, and to use the excess they introduced a new colour called Highway yellow, which was used on Range Rovers around 1980.

Most early Range Rovers & late series yellowish colour was Bahama Gold, not unlike Camel Trophy Sand Glo, a shade darker, wasn't aware of any other yellow colours, other than the Game yellow and of course Camino Gold.

I'd say they had an excess of compliance plates in Camino Gold and nothing to do with paint, or drawing a long bow its a bodgy Game & infact an excellant respray as there were many fakes around in the late '70's & early '80's, like GT "HO" Falcons, a coat of paint & some decals

Its not hard to totally change the colour of a series inside & out .

I thought of that too, BUT the original plates on the car by Leyland states that its a Game. Well hopefully I will have a perfect mix now with the new paint codes confirmed by Mick.

Thanks for all the help and also additional info on the Game model as well. There is not much about them available on the web.

This is all I could find :

The Land-Rover Game was a unique Australian series-3 model, introduced to try to slow down the slide in market share generally, and to try to grab a slice of the recreational vehicle market in particular. It had the short wheel-base (88") station-wagon body (note the rectangular sliding windows) and was dressed up with a bull-bar, wide wheels, flares and yellow paint. The grab handles on the rear chassis cross-member were also replaced with "bumperettes" - L. A11ison


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