Landy Defender Being Re-Sprayed. Wife Giving me Grief! Advice Please.

Folks

I am having my Defender 110 re-sprayed in Camel Trophy Yellow. My wife is horrified!

Is it really that bad? Please give me your opinions.

Also, if I ever have to sell it, would this color become a hindrance?

Thanks you all!

Obviously a lady of taste.

Pink

Each to their own. If you’re respraying a very original defender, it might not benefit its value. But others paint their with paint that has a finish not dissimilar to sandpaper, which is far worse in my opinion.

Compared to some colours, sand glow yellow is ok. But if the original colour was quite dark, it’s understandable that your wife might be a bit shocked by the change.

Has she said “ it’s me or the truck “ yet ?

I would not choose the colour of diarrhoea. Can understand your wife's disgust

It seems a bit more glossy yellow orange than Land Rover Camel Trophy Yellow LRC361:
Mind I've always liked yellow Landys but I think CTY is rather as @Wimblowdriver said.
I had a 110 in Arizona Tan, looked like poop!
It's your truck and if you like the colour so be it.

Other yellows are available !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Looks a bit dark to me? It did they change the colour?

Awful colour.

goonarmy said:

Awful colour.

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So was Arizona Tan, kind of grew on me though:

Eek!! What's the chequer plate hiding?

Knappster said:

others paint their with paint that has a finish not dissimilar to sandpaper

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Nato IRR?

kermit_rr said:

Eek!! What's the chequer plate hiding?

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usually emptiness

Rich.

Zed. said:

Nato IRR?



Rich.

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I’m thinking more of the raptor stuff…

Knappster said:

I’m thinking more of the raptor stuff…

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Ah.

the Expensive stuff

Rich.

cappers said:

It seems a bit more glossy yellow orange than Land Rover Camel Trophy Yellow LRC361:
Mind I've always liked yellow Landys but I think CTY is rather as @Wimblowdriver said.
I had a 110 in Arizona Tan, looked like poop!
It's your truck and if you like the colour so be it.
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Yeah, I see... and agree with you, it is glossy, and brighter, it should have been mate... It was sprayed by a professional, so I am thinking, could it be the case the true Camel Trophy Yellow LRC361 can only be obtained from Land Rover, and the professional mixed the colour in order to obtain Camel Trophy Yellow?

Does anybody know where I can purchase LRC361?

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Eek!! What's the chequer plate hiding?

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Strangely nothing; the PO thought it looked good The door bottoms were rotting as normal but the sills etc were fine.
Was a 3.5 carb but I put a 3.9 efi in her, came with lpg too. Sold it in 2008 but checking seems not to have been taxed, Mot or SORN since then? Shame as she was good despite the colour

MadAboutDefender said:

Yeah, I see... and agree with you, it is glossy, and brighter, it should have been mate... It was sprayed by a professional, so I am thinking, could it be the case the true Camel Trophy Yellow LRC361 can only be obtained from Land Rover, and the professional mixed the colour in order to obtain Camel Trophy Yellow?

Does anybody know where I can purchase LRC361?

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https://paintman.co.uk/shop/land-rover-sandglow-lrc361/
https://paintman.co.uk/shop/land-rover-camel-trophy-yellow-lrc361/

The Paintman comes highly recommended. Both are labelled LRC361but have different names. Not sure if I can see the difference?
Camel Trophy Yellow

Sandglow

MadAboutDefender said:

Yeah, I see... and agree with you, it is glossy, and brighter, it should have been mate... It was sprayed by a professional, so I am thinking, could it be the case the true Camel Trophy Yellow LRC361 can only be obtained from Land Rover, and the professional mixed the colour in order to obtain Camel Trophy Yellow?

Does anybody know where I can purchase LRC361?

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361/LRC361 is called both 'Camel Trophy Yellow' and 'Sand Glow'.
Same colour, different names.
It's an old Rover/Land Rover thing & common to many colours that were used by both. Rover would call it one thing & Land Rover another.

The paint used on yours would have been bought from a motor factor that does paint & the factor would mix the quantity ordered according to the formulation for it for the paint manufacturer that they stock.

There are some bodyshops that will have a mixing scheme so they can mix colours in-house & eyematch if a car colour is proving awkward to match - or there are a lot of variant shades for that colour - but they are rare.

'Variant shades'. A car manufacturer will come up with a new colour in partnership with a paint manufacturer.
The car manufacturer will order in a quantity of paint & send out new cars painted that colour.
If the colour proves popular & demand is high then they will order another batch.
This may differ slightly from the first batch so you have a variant shade & won't be a perfect match to the original if repairing a vehicle that was painted with the original batch.
The longer the colour is used the more batches of paint they will order & the more variant shades there will be.

Brief update... Defender will no longer be Camel Trophy Yellow... It will be wrapped in British Racing Green.

Thanks for all in the input.