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Monday, December 2, 2013

Jeep Colours

Thanks to the good folks at the website Bring a Trailer, I saw an advertisement for a 1946 Willys Jeep. Those colours looked familiar! According to the Jeep ad, the colours Harvest Tan with Sunset Red were a factory scheme for the CJ2A Jeep, and look a lot like the gold and red the Land Rover had been painted by the previous owner's neighbor sometime in the early 1980's. I wonder if that neighbor had seen a Jeep in these factory colours, and thought they might also work on a Land Rover? Could just be a coincidence, of course, but I thought it was worth showing here.







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  1. AnonymousDecember 7, 2013 at 5:12 AM

    LOL, I'm not a great fan of that colour scheme on either the Land Rover or the Jeep!! Your sage green looks far, far superior. I guess the red wheels was a 70's thing?

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  2. 60LRSWBLHDDecember 7, 2013 at 11:31 AM

    If the Jeep colours were a factory option, then it's a 40's thing! And not my favourite colours, either. The Land Rover was probably the worst when freshly repainted, as it must have been a shiny gold (oxidation turned it to a sand colour over time). Plus the PO had painted the name "Goldenrod" on the back....

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  3. AnonymousDecember 13, 2013 at 4:52 PM

    Yuck, metallic colours are never a good idea on a Series, in fact they don't look that great on a Defender, as they show up every ripple, crease and dent in the panels and amplify the panels gaps.

    As for 'GoldenRod', I assume that either the PO had never driven a truly quick vehicle for him/her to associate a Series with a Hot Rod OR the PO was slightly deranged.... ;-)

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