Re: SER1 FW: Re: Steering column colour

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Tom

You had better send those tops over to me they obviously come off my
vehicle!

As far as I can tell, yes my vehicle was originally a limestone colour.
Exactly which "limestone colour" is only a guess.

My vehicle was a CKD unit assembled by Annand and Thompson in Brisbane
Australia, they were the Queensland distributor for Land Rover in the 1950's
through to the 1970s.  Unfortunately in their rush to become a Nissan
distributor they discarded the Land Rover records.

The only other non-fire engine, 80" Land Rovers I have ever seen in non
standard colours is the 1948/1949 80" in the movie Windom's Way and that was
a battered up unit that could have been re-painted although it was only 7
years old at the time.

The assumption to date was that the vehicle was either a special order or
painted in the non standard colour for marketing purposes.  If your doortops
are also factory limestone we may have to re-write the history books.

Unfortunately I have had the bulkhead sand blasted and refinished so don't
have the evidence from that. However I still haven't completed work on the
rear tub and apart from a number of paint stripper coats plus the removal of
some gal fittings, it is still in a mainly untouched condition.  So you are
welcome to assist me with some Lard Rover archaeology, just pop over and
help me take off the rest of the gal cappings to see if they too have the
limestone colour underneath.  I will supply the beer and Bar-B-Que, we can
all have a merry time investigating and I'll get some more work done on my
project.

Diana
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeremy Brooks" <seriesonegarage@xxxxxxx.xxx>
To: <series1@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2004 12:12 AM
Subject: SER1 FW: Re: Steering column colour


Diana

I can
confirm the steering column colour as black.
I
wonder if any body can shed some light on the limestone paint scheme , as
far as
I know (or James Taylor, that is) all 80's came in either light green or
bronze
green.
I just
purchased a set of NOS doortops for my 80" from TLR in Pittsburgh, Tennessee
(http://www.tntlr.com/index.html) and
they are a factory limestone as well.

Tom
Tollefson,Toronto



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