To paint or not to paint?!

Do I'm relatively new to the forum, I'm 16 and am currently restoring a 1980 series 3 petrol 2.25, she's pretty original and I have a full service history that even includes the receipt of the vehicle being bought from land rover!

My question is...

Should I change the colour of her from Blue (the original colour and the original paint job- hasn't been resprayed) to one if the following...

I have 3 choices I suppose:
1) British racing green (the colour I really want)
2) leave it be (keep it the original aged paintwork)
3) respray her in blue to update her looks

Ideally id like a green Landy but if I change her colour she becomes less original, does a colour change decrease value of the vehicle?

HELP

Colour change might decrease value, especially if you dont do it all (I.e just do outside and not the interior).

Keep it blue Classic land rover colour

I had the same choice when I bought mine, was going to paint it green, but the thought of stripping all the engine bay out just to paint it! I soon came around to blue paint and glad I did keep it now.

To much effort to do properly, they look good in blue. Unless you can do a really good job of painting they are best left original.

I'm doing a ground up restoration anyway so all the bodywork is coming off anyway and I will most likely get a body shop to spray the panels, but what is more valuable... An original blue paintwork or a shiney new green one ?

I would always much prefer the original paint so I would probably pay more for that than a respray.

Stick with blue, there are 1000's of green landys out there -you'd be better off selling yours as an original project and buying a new project in green!

Blue is a nice colour on series too (says the man with a green series!)

Im 17, if you want to insure it when you can drive, keep everything as standard as you can

Will a new paint job up the insurance? What else can you think of (apart from engine) effects insurance for young drivers?

If colour is the same just new paint, shouldnt change anything, and that goes for anything really particularly for us young ones, if its a replacement for an old item exactly the same just new and shiny, its fine, but if you add a winch, big bumper roll cage, (again only really to under 25'S) I wouldnt be suprised if it doubled !

dose it say on the original purchase recite any thing about what colour it is?

Its up to you but if you are putting in the effort in to rebuild it like new id stick with blue
Then buy a green one with big wheels and stuff

if you paint it british racing green you will have to install at least a 5.7 v8

On the original receipt it says blue and as far as I'm aware it has not ever been changed as I have full service history and receipts for everything down to bulb replacements and a respray or paint isn't here

Keep it blue, wonderful colour