Highway Yellow

The original colour of this Land Rover is Highway Yellow according to the Heritage Certificate.  I have sanded off some of the old paint layers in a few spots to confirm it and it was definitely Yellow under all those layers of blue house paint.  And Silver, And Red, and White and Yellow...

I took off the Transmission access cover and sanded down to the original paint as best I could without going right down to the metal. Underneath the poorly matched yellow, was the original Land Rover colour, LRC.561 or Highway Yellow, also called Telecom Yellow. Its a nice muted yellow that is going to look great on the Land Rover once it is finally redone. My local paint shop couldn't find the Land Rover code (LRC.561) so we did a colour match with the help of the panel.

The access panel is on the left in this picture, and there are two shades of yellow on it.  The middle of the panel is the correct original paint.  The edges are what it was repainted with at one time.  I test painted a small area on the front wing with the colour matched paint and I think it is a pretty good match to the original shade. Its going to look good in its proper yellow paint.