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"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile) 08/22/2016 at 09:24 • Filed to: None

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The round-window side/liftgate/non-safari top/bench seat/cheapmeister models don’t get enough love, so I’m posting one.

AMGtech - now with more recalls! > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/22/2016 at 09:33

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I’ve always thought they look better topless.

Svend > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/22/2016 at 09:35

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Nice. Not sure if that’s the original colour. It would of been put to work in and around Birmingham not far from where it was built.

But she’s been well restored.

I love all Landies on their own merits.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Svend 08/22/2016 at 10:00

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I’m not sure of the color consistency of Barrett Jackson’s cameras - it’s definitely supposed to be Limestone, but it does come off a bit too white.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > AMGtech - now with more recalls! 08/22/2016 at 10:14

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There’s a bit in the first Gods Must Be Crazy in which the overgrowth is so dense that they take off the roof to go through - so in some cases being roofless enhances offroading.

TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/22/2016 at 11:01

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It’s more pearl than Limestone, maybe someone liked Valloire Pearl White Met or Deep Windsor Pearl Mic 2ct?

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. 08/22/2016 at 11:04

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Maybe somebody thought that Rover limestone was the right *kind* of color, but they really needed to edge it a couple tones toward white metallic for no reason.

TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/22/2016 at 11:19

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Seems possible.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. 08/22/2016 at 11:30

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Or they just guessed out of a paint book and didn’t bother to look up the DuPont/Glasurit or PPG codes. Either or.

TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/22/2016 at 11:52

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That is inexcusable IMHO, it literally takes you 5 minutes or less to look up the paint codes.

http://www.landroverseries.org/paint-codes.ht…

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. 08/22/2016 at 11:58

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I remember looking up the codes before that guy put that site together - hard, but not impossible either. I’m pretty sure it was possible on freakin’ Usenet.

As an amusing side note, Massey Ferguson red is nearly 100% identical to Poppy Red. The local Tractor Supply has Majic brand implement paint in Massey red, and before ordering paint for my brother’s 88", we needed to prep the inside fenders, radiator support, and firewall areas that can’t be reached with the fenders on.

GUESS WHAT I DID

TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/22/2016 at 12:01

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Fenders are easy to remove so...

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. 08/22/2016 at 12:13

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Well, the objective was to be able to shoot everything in one process after sufficient masking and after completed repairs to the back quarter, stripping the interior, etc. etc. Just easier to have things taken care of there while we were cleaning existing rust/etc. This is one that we don’t actually have to have all the way apart, so this was a fix to be able to work on the front fenders in place with the rest of the bodywork. and have the firewall front done. Had to have the fenders off to get to other concerns, might as well not take them off when the main paint job takes place. It’s also one of our rattier ones, so we can ghetto it a little more freely.

Plus which, I mean, it’s such a bright red that your eyes shut down before you can distinguish any subtleties in tone.

TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/22/2016 at 13:17

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Any thoughts to galvanising the bulkhead? Thinking I’m going to do it to mine, the warping isn’t too bad from what my dad says when he did his. Just needed to convince it a little more than normal to fit into place.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. 08/22/2016 at 13:36

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The thing that makes me a little skeptical on bulkhead galvanizing is knowing the extent of surface rust that tends to lurk inside - everything’s got a couple of mils of brown on it in most cases and I don’t think a typical pre-galv acid dip is enough to take it off. As bad or worse than a frame (which are iffy), and much harder to have holes everywhere enough to ensure contact. I also don’t know what the best patterning of holes would be. The local (by which I mean an hour and a half away) galvanizing guys are Nazi about having enough holes, and the balance between having enough for eliminating air and not having leaks or a rubber plug party...

Also, when you say more convincing than normal, does that mean more convincing than dismounted normal or repaired normal? Because repaired normal (new footwells/new posts/new whatever) is already horrible.

It can probably be done right, but for ours, I just did phosphate and POR where I could get it and figured on fixing any cancer as/if it came. I’d love to tool up for making new ones, on which I’d be able to control surfaces a lot better and maybe rework the more tricky sandwiched sections with galvanizing in mind.

TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/22/2016 at 13:53

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I’d say that it isn’t as bad as repaired normal, slightly worse than dismounted normal.

I’d love to get the tooling for remaking them however if a billionaire is having major issues doing it, our chances of falling pregnant are better...

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. 08/22/2016 at 13:58

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They’re making the Defender ones fresh, just not the Series ones - which are mostly just an extra box and different center section - not any more complex. What’s this about a billionaire?

TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/22/2016 at 14:11

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Jim Ratcliffe wanting to buy the tooling for the Land Rover so he can keep making them. Land Rover is having none of it though.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. 08/22/2016 at 14:16

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Well, the firewalls at least *are* available new... for a Defender. And honestly, the cat is well and truly out of that particular bag, given that most exterior body parts are available repro in some way and that Iran is still making Series derived trucks from Spanish gear...

AMGtech - now with more recalls! > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/22/2016 at 15:21

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Cool! I haven’t seen that movie since I was a kid.

Liam Farrell > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/22/2016 at 15:53

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I like that. My trucks top and wheels are like that color. Except they were painted pretty poorly.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Liam Farrell 08/22/2016 at 16:16

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If you look at this one, the body and wheels were painted *almost* the correct limestone, and the top is a little more of an eggshell - not quite a match. Then again, when I got some limestone mixed up in PPG urethane for the top on mine, it didn’t quite match the limestone enamel that my dad had done a whole batch of wheels in years before. Yours is pretty close to the right color.

One of the ones in my family’s stable is a 109 pickup that was originally limestone and was repainted a variety of sand - maybe a GM color - by my dad, but it was too pink and that paint job eventually got problems. It’s going to be redone in full limestone whenever we dig it out and redo some bodywork on it.